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Migrants

Social Housing

Migrants face a unique inability to access government-led social schemes in their cities of work as their identity and domicile documents are often tagged to their native addresses. They may avail such benefits there but rely entirely on renting affordable homes in the cities, obtained through informal markets, often in sub-standard living conditions.

Eyesores and elite environmentalists

The Ghazipur landfill, commissioned in 1984, has long outlived its capacity, but still takes 2500 metric tonnes of garbage daily. The site should have been closed 17 years ago when it crossed its maximum capacity, but still lives on collecting tonnes of waste daily.

Lessons from Migration

The solution lies with the complete transformation of economic and administrative processes, practices and policies to enable rural India to face up to the issues that the coronavirus-induced reverse migration has thrown up