Dear Friends,
When
emigration takes the shape of exodus and large groups of people move from one
habitat to another, it disrupts the local order of things. Large-scale
migration is a kind of encroachment upon the natural living conditions of
native local inhabitants and may create a hazardous situation.
Articles 15 and 19e are Constitutional requirements. But their
implementation at the cost of resentment of the local people is a dangerous
phenomenon. The case of Maharashtra and the venomous eruptions by some political
parties must be viewed with this aspect in view. While such eruptions are
offensive and unwarranted, they also invoke an urgent need for all the three
guardians (governing and monitoring) to look into the causes that result in
such large-scale exodus, gradually taking the shape of a menace. A similar
situation was created when rickshaw-pullers were permitted in Delhi and now authorizing
the illegal colonies to legal.
These episodes call for serious investigation into the causes
compelling such exoduses. The conspicuous reason is perennial and consistent
non-performances of our governing guardians (Legislature and Executive) in
terms of tangible development. To halt such fratricidal episodes it is
desirable for the monitoring guardian, the learned Judiciary, to direct the
Legislature and the Executive to create avenues and conditions especially on
the rural front on an urgent basis enabling people to earn their living at
their native places.
Partisan thoughts and withering brotherhood (fratricidal
instincts) culminate in the polarisation of the nation. It is a dangerous
indicator of communal divides and fragmentation of the nation. The Tendulkar
and N.C. Saxena Committee reports on levels of impoverishment and later the
NSSO report (clipping 73A) have further underlined the pathetic condition of
our people. The plight of tribal areas and that of interior India may be yet
more harrowing than meets the eye–evoking little surprise at the rising Maoism,
Naxalism and other terrorist activity in the country.
K C Agrawal
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