A Job is a Job is a Job …
The Union Ministry for Railways headed by Nitish Kumar could not, for example, have had just national interest in mind when it sent a few train loads of Biharis from Bihar to Assam. Not to a state, the capital of which alone has an estimated 1.5 lakh Biharis, who eke out a living as construction workers, rickshaw pullers, porters and the like, not the best of professions. Not when Tinsukia, Assam and the entire North-east's main mandi for all purposes, is dominated by lakhs of domiciled, third-generation Biharis many of whom form a part of the state's unemployed.