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Chiranjeet
It is just a response.
Not long ago I read somewhere that Delhi municipality was taking adequate
steps to remove cattle from the streets. I do not know about other cities.
In The International Herald Tribune, May 28-29, 2005 has an
article:'Ripples of India's prosperity touch its poor', Saritha Rai writes that
"While most attention has been on the middle class as the country's economy
grows, the poor also have benefited.""States like Delhi, Maharashtra and
Karnataka, where Bangalore is, are doing better, while backward states like
Bihar and Orissa, where local governmens are not so geared toward development,
are worse off."
The article above is a good read and although it was following a visit to
Bangalore, the writer has dealt with the subject of poverty as a whole in India.
My surmise is that the slum-dwellers though not living in one-rooom
concrete houses as in Bangalore, are well-off compared to our rural poor in rest
of India (Don't forget 70% of Kolkata's population live in one-room flats). And
certain type of slum-dwellers as in Mumbai would call themselves midddle classes
from where ambitious starlets, trade-union leaders and even cyber
whiz-kids emerge.
In Assam the family-owned land is diminishing in size every day and in any
case the boys and girls who have gone to school are reluctant to eke out a
living in the ancient ways. The number of applicants for jobs in the army,
police force and primary and secondary schools indicates the
magnitude of the problem and it is here we trace the genesis of the militant
organisations in Assam.
Bhuban
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