Unki Dharti Sona Uglegi !

Sanjay Kumar

       For some years cultivation of North India particularly that of Punjab was suffering for lack of laborers. Thanks to MNREGA which created opportunities for labourers to find job in their own backyard. It was because of this only very few laborers from Bihar, Jharkhand,Odisha and UP had to move out of station to earn their bread and butter in recent years. Alas! this favorable condition could not continue for long. Once again for the sake of two square meals labourers are turning to North India. Their POVERTY is being looked as PROFIT by North Indian peasants. Farmers in the region are expecting to have bumper crop this year by virtue of labour of these labourers from Bihar and UP. They are expecting once again they will have rich yields or say 'Unki Dharti Sona Uglegi'.
      Migration from Bihar and UP at any category have always been seen and debated in a negative way only. However, do you know many small scale industries had to be closed in Nashik of Maharashtra for lack of laborers only. Since Maharashtra and Punjab are reckoned in developed states; economic condition of even lower middle class are better than the laborers who migrate to these regions. How their economic condition improved ? Did not these labourers contribute to their prosperity ?
      Being in 'News-World' time and again come across news items from every nook and corner of India, be it Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh,Rajasthan,Maharashtra,Gujrat or Andhra Pradesh etc. that in a certain city hundreds of laborers are agitating against ill treatment meeting out to them by their employers.

      It is high time downtrodden are treated with love and regards and find themselves in main stream. Their contribution in road construction, making of buildings and other kind of structures, ploughing the vast field of the nation etc. are invaluable. Am not I sitting in the comfort of the house they made, eating food they grew in the field and drinking water that they made available through the pipeline that they put under the land miles and miles from this end of water body to right at our home. They must be given their due. Due in what sense ? They deserve respect, love and adequate remuneration from us,They are the very foundation stone of the nation. They have great achievements to their credits. Salute to them!