Migrant workers

Today Madhavi escaped being run over by a speeding train. On probing I realized Madhavi walks on the rail tracks for about half an hour each day to reach the housing complex where she works as a maid. About 160 families have been illegally settled in makeshift shacks along the railway tracks by local party bosses. Most of these families are migrants from adjoining rural areas. Now that underground railway work is on at full swing and railway authorities have sealed all gaps in the boundary walls through which men and women used to take a short cut previously, women like Madhavi are now exposed to death traps on a daily basis. In most cases they are the major bread earners in the family with each woman working in at least five to six apartments on a daily basis.
Political leaders can be extremely short sighted and inhuman in their approach to people issues.At every point in our society you can see examples of such callousness towards the poor and non-existent and weak governance such as these.