As Uttar Pradesh's Budaun goes to polls in the third phase, residents of Ismailpur village in Sahaswan say they are yet to have a government that will work towards the development of their village. The village faces a recurring issue during the monsoon season when the nearby river swells, submerging the entire area and cutting off access to the mainland, preventing locals from venturing out for work, education or to see a doctor. Poor health facilities and unemployment are among other issues the Budaun locals are grappling with the moment.
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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?