MIGRATION AND SOCIAL IMPACT: A REGIONAL OVERVIEW

Abstract

Partition of India marked the fierce controversy an end; but it also marked the beginning of what was literally an ordeal of fire and blood for its people. They were denied by the basic necessities of life, no food, no shelter and no securities for life. The award of the Punjab Boundary Commission caused much disappointment. This lengthy process involving patterns of settlement, institutional integration, commitment boards, building, ventures of joint council and governmental policies-that gave a semblance to streamline the controversial process of massive migration.

The nexus between the rich and powerful, the administration and the police was in a path regular in perspective of the gigantic stakes included. Regardless of whether it was the ripeness of law of the circumstance of the agrarian land to be designated or the area of the business properties, the energy of attentiveness that lay in the hands of the re allotment authorities provided for the entire exercise a questionable character. On the other hand the negligible patwari was maybe the most persuasive authority on the two sides of the outskirt. Broad dark promoting was accounted for in court understanding stamps and papers. The gigantic weight on the patwari who was relied upon to give the vital records of the land to empower designation and afterward to empower the allottees to take real ownership of the land could be better comprehended as far as the quantity of families that should have been distributed land. Muslim refugees from the East Punjab intermixed with the occupants of the West Punjab and those from the West Punjab and the West Punjab States with the moved individuals of East Punjab. This intermixing of the populace with each other prompted new social advancements. The evacuee’s businesspeople extraordinarily expanded the course of merchandise even in the towns. Observing the horrors of migration they undoubtedly helped refugees to come out of their deteriorated states of minds. They helped them push out from the wells of dejection, sorrows and isolation not only morally but economically as well. They provided them with all the available resources and played a very appreciable role in the rehabilitation of refugees. But the post partition role of refugees in this regard is mixed and doubtful, since years they are still feeling the social mix as an avoidable phenomenon. They assume themselves as all time refugees. The shift from refugees to citizens in the society of Pakistan is craving to be treated vigorously.