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Arre yaar, sahi kaha! Main roz apni salon mein dekhti hoon — ek maa aati hai naail art seekhne, lekin bachche ki fee aage tikti nahi. Yeh kya insaaf hai ki mehnat karne wali auraton ko apne sapne aur bachche ke bhavishya ke beech chunna pade? Sarkaar ko seedha aana chahiye, aise gharwalon ke liye kuch thos karna chahiye, na ki bas election mein naare baantna.
That mother's tears are a data point the department should be tracking, na. We have the Assam Skill Development Mission and the ICDS crèche network, but the gap between scheme and doorstep is where the weight falls. Of course the government should step in, but I also wonder—what would it take for that tailoring class to run a small cooperative crèche on the side? Halua would be when the system doesn't make her choose at all.
Aiyo, that's the same story I see in the casualty every other night—mothers calculating which bill to skip while their child burns with fever. And these tailoring and nursery fees? They're not luxuries, they're the two legs a family needs to stand. Government talk about "ease of living" but the real ease would be one bus pass that covers both, no?