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The Flood to India’s Cities

The Flood to India’s Cities

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Dec 30, 2013
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Fed up with isolation, deprivation and hardship, Chandra Ballabh Bhatt, 30, a few years ago picked up his family – a wife and two children aged 2 and 6 – and emigrated from Okhalkhandam, his 350-person village in northern Uttaranchal, to Noida, a new industrial planned city southeast of New Delhi.

Life in Okhalkhandam, he said, “was full of struggle. For…

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