THEFTS. Street crime. Dacoities. Drugs. Gang wars. No, this is not the ad blurb for a new Bollywood potboiler; rather, it is a possible scenario of urban India in the next few years. Last month, this column had discussed the certainty of a large influx of job-seekers, mainly from eastern and central India into major industrial-commercial centres in South and West India. It noted that such migration could create social tensions and would have political implications.
These migrants would fill the demand-supply gap caused by a booming economy and an inadequate population of workers in these states. . .