Abstract
Urbanization is a global phenomenon, and rapid urban growth can be noticed in different parts of India. Significantly, in search of better livelihood and income, a large section of people are getting migrated from rural to urban areas. However, is it becoming detrimental to their livelihood and socio-economic condition?
In the modern world, the rights of the weaker sections of population in a nation-state, those of minorities, of the poor and the displaced people, are often ignored or encroached upon by the coercive state machinery or by the powerful class. Even sometime a few political circumstances play a major role, whether a community will have accessibility to the land and natural resources or not. Such a situation can be observed among a section of Bangladeshi refugees. Due to partition of India and after that during the formative period of Bangladesh, they were forced to get displaced and they came to India. A section of them and their children are struggling for livelihood in the slum areas of Guwahati, the largest urban centre of entire Northeast India. They are recognized as an undocumented migrant population group. They are deprived in every aspect from the fundamental rights of livelihood, and they have to face all sorts of livelihood obstacles, which are collectively excluding them from the developmental mainstream.
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