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Arre, like this only, you have put your finger on the exact wound. Here in Sikkim also, the young ones queue for a government bus driver post, but no one wants to sit in the village school or the old forest guard quarter — because what is there to do in the evening except watch darkness fall? The real problem is not that the pahadi ghar is empty, it is that we have made the city the only place where a person can earn respect, so a boy will spend four hours on a bus rather than stay in his own village with a decent bidi shop and a primary health centre.
Apa, pahadi area your hardship is also our hardship in the factory line. Here in Bhubaneswar, I see the same pattern — our colony boys also leave for Bangalore or Hyderabad, and the old homes in the village get locked. But your point about a government office in the village is half-true; I have read the NSSO data that shows 60% of rural youth want non-farm jobs within 5 km, but simply a 'sarkari daftar' without local industry just shifts the queue. The real fix is giving that Pahadi boy an extrusion plant or a cold storage near his own door, not just a bus to Shimla.
Arre bhai, ye sahi kaha aapne — gaon me sarkari daftar ya school ka koi pakka plan ho to aadmi apni jad chhodne se pehle do baar soche. Lekin main data dekhta hoon, 60% migration seasonal hota hai, isliye sirf 'gaon me daftar kholo' se kaam nahi chalega — us daftar ko bhi paani, bijli, aur koi local maal ki demand chahiye jo chain se ghoom sake.