00:00You all come here, you have seen this road, everyone comes here, but this road has been like this for a long time.
00:08What can we do? If a child gets fever, there is no doctor here.
00:20Hi, this is Zaina Azhar Sayadaw from Outlook India.
00:23I have travelled to three Uttar Pradesh constituencies, Badayun, Samhal and Hathras
00:28and interacted with the locals about the key issues in their region.
00:31In rural Badayun in Sehaswan, there is a village Ismailpur, where the river floods up every monsoon season
00:40and the land gets submerged, almost becoming like an island.
00:45They were born here.
00:47We have been here for 40 years.
00:49They will die there.
00:53You all have been here for a long time, you must be seeing the problems.
00:57Has it been like this from the beginning or has it increased?
01:00It has been like this from the beginning.
01:02You all come here, you have seen this road, everyone comes here, but this road has been like this for a long time.
01:09What can we do? If a child gets fever, there is no doctor here.
01:16We have to go. It is raining.
01:18When the water comes, we have to take the children from here.
01:21We have to walk, we have to get drenched in the water.
01:23Then we have to come from there.
01:25Where is the doctor?
01:27Is he in Sehaswan or Uttar Pradesh?
01:29The road that you are standing on is closed.
01:32It is high.
01:34When it rains here, the whole area gets submerged.
01:40Then the affected villages get migrated to other places.
01:46This is a big problem in life.
01:48The land is so disconnected that going anywhere becomes difficult and the residents have to use boats.
01:54The disconnectivity causes them a lot of inconvenience.
01:59Children can't go to school.
02:01Men can't go to work and if there is a medical emergency, they just pray that it doesn't claim their lives.
02:06Has anyone from your family gone out to work?
02:09No, everyone stays here.
02:11Everyone stays here.
02:13Some cut wood, some work in the fields.
02:15Some work in the fields.
02:17Some work in the paddy fields.
02:19Everyone stays here.
02:21No one goes out.
02:23No matter where we go, no one goes out.
02:25Someone is going to break a house, someone is going to run a factory, someone is doing farming.
02:28This is the work.
02:30Till now, we have been cut off.
02:32Now there are small children.
02:34If you get married, you can't even go to your in-laws' house.
02:37They are not educated.
02:39This is a big problem for them.
02:41There is a lot of malnutrition here.
02:43Children are suffering from malnutrition.
02:45The percentage of malnutrition is above 90%.
02:48There is no work.
02:50The government does a lot of work, but the ground reality is completely different.
02:54In Badain, one of the main issues which came to the fore was mass migration.
02:59So most of the working class travelled to bigger cities like Lucknow and Delhi for their livelihood
03:06due to lack of any industry in Badain.
03:09Among other issues was poor health facilities and poor infrastructure.
03:14We have been living here for about 30-35 years.
03:18And what work do you do?
03:20We go abroad and work as labourers.
03:23Where do you go?
03:24We go to Delhi and Jaipur.
03:26Is there any work here?
03:28No, there is no work here.
03:30Sometimes we go to the market and sell things.
03:33Like what?
03:35Like we buy clothes from someone or someone else.
03:39We don't have anything of our own.
03:41We have to sell other people's stuff.
03:44It's like an argument.
03:46So you have been working here since the beginning?
03:50Yes, since the beginning.
03:52We don't have any business here.
03:54We don't have enough money to do anything.
03:57So the people here never told the government?
04:02They told the government everything.
04:05Even if you go for government work, no one does it.
04:08We don't have a ration card here.
04:11Why?
04:12Sometimes the survey is down, sometimes the site is closed.
04:16I got it online a dozen times.
04:19Even after getting every Aadhaar card online, I still don't have a ration card.
04:25Now the question is, if I get hit because of the Ayushman card,
04:30do I have to get treated?
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