A news item in “NAI DUNIYA”, Raipur dated Thursday, November 24, 2011 indicates that the migration of labourers from the state of Chhattisgarh is not coming to an end in spite of the important National Employment Guarantee Scheme being executed.
It appears from the available statistics that from surrounding areas of Pithora in Raipur district about 5000 labourers have migrated so far this year. It is further reported that this sort of migration is mainly due to the active role played by the labour contractors and the inability or incompetence of Labour Department. There seems to be no action taken against these contractors. They are normally found busy in their work soon after the monsoon under the pretext of offering more wages to the labourers with the result the migration starts even before the Dussehra festival.
One could see in the last two months such labourers being transported in private vehicles and public bus transport up to Bilaspur and Raipur Railway stations, from where they were supposed to reach their destination in states like Punjab, Haryana and U.P. No one can question the liberty of anybody for that matter moving in search of better and well-paid jobs in other states and regions but what is disturbing in the state of Chhattisgarh is the phenomenon of forced migration for want of gainful and decent wage-employment in the neighborhood of those villagers.
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