Bihar is growing, that is why. Our growth is not confined to the coasts, and not as dependent on migrant workers as that of the coastal regions of China in their growth heyday. And anyway, where are the damn migrant workers anymore? Gone to NREGA every one.
The knock on effect of fewer migrant workers will also revolutionize agriculture, particularly in Punjab, where the fellows have become used to paying a few pfennigs a day to get their work done and make up for their abysmal farming practices that have ruined the soil and depleted the water table.
The reason is economics. If they do no longer have cheap labour farmers will have to find a way to sustainably increase yields to pay for the required mechanization.
By freeing people from slavery Mr Dreze has robbed his own revolution of needed revolutionaries and instead handed them over to the super middle class vision of Mr Singh and Mrs Gandhi.
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