Metropolitan Cities - a great divide between the rich and the poor

Recently I was on visit to Delhi and Chandigarh for some official assignment. I was in a train from Chandigarh to Delhi and when the train left New Delhi station, I saw there were pool of garbage everywhere beside the railway track till a long stretch for some kilometers. There were many girls and small children in the middle of those garbage dumps.  They all were holding a bin bag over their shoulders looking for something that they could pick out from the garbage in their bags. They would sell those rags and earn a paltry sum for the entire day of work in exchange.  These rag pickers are common everywhere. But whenever I see those boys and girls I feel like they are destined to live their lives like animals.  These young girls and boys are vulnerable to various diseases.  Also almost all of them undergo sexual assaults and physical abuses by the anti-socials and vagabonds as they mostly happen to be orphans or children born and brought up on footpaths or slums. 

On the other hand now a days since we often read the reports of rapes and sexual assault on girls and women, one of the major reasons for this is that they are often made to go to defecate in open. I thought earlier that this was happening only in rural areas, but in the vicinity of Delhi, the capital of republic of India, this might be happening I did not think of earlier. But it's a reality I could understand during my journey. We often ignore the fact that a major part of our rural population migrates every year to metropolitan cities like Delhi and Mumbai. With the unbridled population growth and limited resources at the hands of the governments and local bodies, it is almost impossible for them to provide the basic amenities of life to this overgrowing population who just come there with big dreams, big expectations and to have a better life than what they had earlier at their villages. But how these families live there, we can't imagine.  Later on it proves to be a mirage.

There is only one solution to this problem - Population Control. Law makers need to do something concrete for this. Also the government needs to stop this bulk migration by providing employment to people in their own rural areas starting development projects at all states and those unrepresented areas from where maximum migration of such folks happen.

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