social issue
SOCIAL ISSUE 1. The ghost village of Uttarakhand. In the lockdown that was Ghost Villages might make you think that the villages we are talking about here are haunted or have a paranormal presence. But that’s not what this term implies. Ghost villages are at least 550 migration-hit villages in the state of Uttarakhand. These villages have lost more than half of their population to migration and since they are empty, imposed last year, the people who migrated from the villages to the big cities lost their jobs and means of income and that became one big reason why people started to return to their homes in the villages. And hence the ghost villages started seeing a rise in their population. The term ghost was the English translation of the Hindi term “Bhootiya”. Over the years people had migrated to the cities in search of work and the villages were hardly left with any people. The deserted villages were hence devoid of human presence and started being called ghost v...