Saurab Kumar, who worked as a plumber in Dehradun, about 175 km from his home, has nothing to repair in his village.
“Nobody has a water-fitting here, so I am useless,” says a despondent Kumar, sitting with a group of 10 boys near the village ponds.
“Nobody has a water-fitting here, so I am useless,” says a despondent Kumar, sitting with a group of 10 boys near the village ponds.
His village, Hussainpur Kalan, about 48 km from Bijnor, on the NH-51 (Gajraula-Chandpur-Bijnor), is one of the thousands in Uttar Pradesh that send migrants to cities every year.
As the unemployment comes up, the boys abruptly end their game of rummy. “Today we all are useless. For the past two days, we got

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