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Jobless leaving villages in droves
In spite of the tall claims by the successive governments that MNREGA is a boon to the rural folk who found no employment in rural areas, the people in the rural areas are compelled to migrate in search of greener pastures. The case in point is Parmilla village of Lingampet mandal in the district.
Kamareddy: In spite of the tall claims by the successive governments that MNREGA is a boon to the rural folk who found no employment in rural areas, the people in the rural areas are compelled to migrate in search of greener pastures. The case in point is Parmilla village of Lingampet mandal in the district.
There are no jobs not only in the field of agriculture and its allied industries, but also in the traditional handicrafts and other hereditary professions. In Parmilla village, there are 555 families with a population of 2,443 members without jobs and are almost starving.
The unemployed youth, comprising farmers, students and women in large numbers are leaving their aged parents and small children behind and migrating to other areas from several villages to eke their livelihood.
Among these, there are 1,208 men and 1,245 women and 60 per cent of the population have already migrated to Hyderabad and to other districts. Some of them who fell sick and suffering from various types of ailments had to return to their village.
The village wears a deserted look and several houses are found to be locked. At least two members from each family left the village. Although 539 people have job cards under MNREGA, work is not available. A majority of them in Parmila village are dependent on agriculture.
However, the MDO of Lingampet, Shankar Reddy said that the delay in payment of wages has been discouraging the villagers to undertake works under MNREGA. Moreover, they prefer to work in Hyderabad which is more remunerative than MNREGA works.
There is hardly any water source for their fields to undertake cultivation and that was the main reason they prefer to migrate to other places seeking work, he added. According to reports, there are a total of 1,000 families in the villages of the two districts of Nizamabad and Kamareddy who migrated to other areas for greener pastures.
Speaking to The Hans India here on Monday, some of the labourers lamented that the government did not make any alternative arrangements for them by way of providing jobs. If there were jobs in the district, they would not have to go out, they added.
They said that even if they work, the wage is very low and that too would be paid very late. If they work in Hyderabad, each of them would be paid Rs 300 per day while they get Rs 300 for the couple, they said.
One of the villagers, Gopal said that he had no money even to provide medical treatment to his wife who is bedridden and he had to migrate to Hyderabad in search of a job. But he had to return when his wife fell sick, he added.
Another farmer, Rajaiah, said that they had to leave for Hyderabad along with his aged parents as they were facing lot of hardships due to unemployment. He said that they had one and a half acre land but as there were no borewells crops had withered away. He expressed the hope that the government would do something for them in providing employment opportunities in their village.
