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| Menace of Bangladeshi infiltrators--II: Socio-economic impact of influx |
| 2008-07-22 |
| By R.K. Ohri, IPS (Retd.) Bangladesh has become the major operational ground for waging proxy war against India. Pakistan's ISI and Al Qaeda have a grand design to set up a caliphate from Indonesia to Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, via India and through Pakistan right into the Balkans. In this global Islamic design India is the only obstacle, populated by non-Muslims. During last three decades there has been a quantum jump in economic distress caused by growing unemployment all over the northeast, especially in Assam. As mentioned by the Chief Minister of Assam in August 2004, there were more than two million unemployed youth in Assam alone, an abnormally high figure by national standards. It could be an underestimate because the State's economic survey for 2003-2004 revealed that employment exchanges had 15,71,996 job-seekers. As a rule, the employment exchange figures are underestimated to the extent of 30 to 40 per cent because the rural unemployed don't come to register themselves in Employment Exchanges. Obviously the state has more than 20 to 25 lakh unemployed youth. Anyone can guess, what could be the jobs and livelihood resources usurped by Bangladeshis? Census 2001 had placed the population of Assam at 2,66,55,528. As per census 1991, the proportion of Assemese-speaking people in Assam was less than 40 per cent indicating that they have already become a minority in their ancestral homestead. That should give us an idea of the size of Bangla influx which could be 70 to 80 lakh. It means that at least 30 to 35 lakh jobs and livelihood resources have been usurped by Bangladeshis in Assam alone. Among the poorest sections of society both in India and Bangladesh, at least two members of the family (often both father and mother) work to keep the kitchen fires burning. Thus Nandy is not far wrong in saying that by pushing 15 per cent of its population into India, Bangladesh has imposed a heavy economic burden on Indian citizens. And this burden is borne by the poorest of the poor living on the margin of starvation because they are the first victim of loss of livelihood sources and petty jobs. |
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