On Sunday, the New Delhi CM Sheila Dixit again mentioned that the immigrants from neighbouring states were causing the arrangements made by the Delhi government inadequate. The immigrants, that come into the city in thousands everyday, cause the resources to be inadequate.
I fully agree to her. Being a fourth generation in Delhi, my family has been staying in the city since its inception(courtesy of my Grandfather, who was in excise services then). And ever since then, the city has been taking in more and more people. Infact, even i've seen people from far away states come to Delhi, and reside here.
One of the major problems in Delhi is that everyone's calls himself a Delhi'ite - even if he's just come to Delhi half an hour back. There a lot of students from multiple states who coe here just for six months, do not attend their classes, and pass their course, and call themselves a 'Delhi'ite'. Such are the people i get disgusted at. they get all the rights which are meant for us Delhi'ites.
I do not mean to discriminate people. Its just that everyone eats into our share. For better elaboration, i'd give my personal example. When i had passed highschool, we had to give enterance exams for higher edication. Now in Delhi, there were hardly 12000 seats(including 49% quota for SC/ST/OBC/Defence Personnel/Kashmir Immigrant), and the number of applicants were 76000+(YES, JUST IN DELHI, this figure doesnt include Noida,Gurgaon,Ghaziabad, Greater Noida).
And so, because of excessive competition, i wasn't able to secure an admission in Delhi. Born in Delhi, brought up in Delhi, lived in Delhi, but still no admission. Though a specific batchmate, who just had shifted from another town in Western India to Delhi, got a seat. My point is, in other states, there is a provision of domiscile. Haryana has planned ahead, and has provided a "Permanent Residence Certificate", which grants admission to people who have been residing in Haryana for the past 15years, even though they are not currently here. The state has protected the interest of its public. Other union territories like Andaman and Nicobar islands also have such provisions(Residents of the Island in Andaman & Nicobar).
Delhi should learn from Haryana. The original Delhi'ites are being bullied by people who just came to the city yesterday. Infact, i am saying this with a sad heart, most of the people who're migrating to Delhi are mostly less mannered people who lack decency like the old Delhi'ites and spread wrong word about the original Delhi'ites and their city. They are more like parasites, who keep on cursing the city which has provided them with employment/education. Once a person wo used to study in my institution, and lived on rent in my locality, was from a eastern state(some village too far away) kept calling Delhi names for being too populated, and dirty and himself used to spit continuously on the road. When i said that guys like him were making the city dirty, inhygenic by not caring about public hygiene, he started cursing Delhi'ites calling us arrogant. Which city would like to have such parasites. Mumbai has multiple Marathi forces which keeps a check such people. Its Delhi who 'tolerates' such people.
Delhi used to be as good looking as Chandigarh back in early 2000's. In the past 5-7 years, it has become into a city which is nowhere near the old city. Even the BBC archives of this city seem to be of a city in other nation. Its hard to believe that this city has changed so much, and that too in the negative sense.
So, its high time that Delhi should bring in a 'Permanent residence Certificate' preference when it comes to any admissions, government jobs or property allotment. Unless we filter the crowd in the city, traffic, cleanliness, health, pollution will remain a problem.
Hope someone in the Government of NCT of Delhi would be reading this.
