Saturday, June 21, 2008

Lower Bihari migrations outside Bihar

The Delhi newspapers have reported the drastic fall in arrival of Bihari students to Delhi University (DU). They are far below UP! And yet the general impression in Delhi is that Bihari students take admissions in roves and deprive Delhites of seats! In fact the same report suggested that some of the boards like Tamil Nadu give 90+ percentages easily and hey corner the best seats. Bihar board is very conservative in awarding marks.
Now that the general education and health situation in Bihar have improved, such migrations have stopped. So have the flight of capital to outside Bihar. And icing on the cake is the news that this year there has been 50% reduction in arrival of Bihari labour to Punjab and the crisis that Punjab is facing. Now in the beginning we must note that unlike Maharashtra, Punjab has always been very hospitable and caring towards Bihari labourers. but still massive construction works in Biahr, the political revival and better law and order in the state and above all NREGA have stemmed the tide and Biharis are finding well paid work nearer home where they can eat and live in familiar conditions. So they have stopped migrating.
Same for students and patients. The Nitish Government have taken many steps that has revolutionized the health care in the state. now nearer home they can get treatment and minor surgeries at village health centres or at least nearest medical colleges. many institutions of higher learning have been opened and many engineering colleges are coming up. So students have stopped going in droves. the best and affluent will always migrate but it the migration of poorest and lower middle class students that caused worries. that has stopped now.
so Mr Raj Thackeray take a back seat and relax. we don't need your Mumbai or Pune and fill the seats of otherwise bhaiji Fergusson College. eat your vada pavs and enjoy. If students
from Bihar do not come to your colleges yo will have to turn them into cold storage and store your vada pavs in them.

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