There was a time when the villagers were self-sufficient by having their interdependence on one or the other. They had the least desire of fleeing towards the cities.

With the rapid speed of changing time, modernity, commercialisation and so on, the villagers started migrating to cities in search of job, education, knowledge, better civic facilities and the glamorous life. The village-craft has lost its meaning so they have become unemployed. In order to fill up their belly, they have started moving towards the cities.

They flee to these places wherever they can get work. In addition to this, certain natural calamities like drought, flood, earthquake, and cyclone, etc. force them to move to the safer places since the cities are more protected than villages. The rag- pickers of Seemapuri is a current example of this type. In the villages, there are insufficient facilities of education, accommodation, profession and other requisite of life. One can find unhealthy and dingy atmosphere there in the village. To avoid any kind of trouble, people migrate to the cities. Very often the policies of government turn the barren land into fertile one. So the people run there for earning their livings.

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