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Every year, waves of people travel from rural areas across the country to Mumbai and other urban areas, looking for ways to make a living. Of them, few are able to go home to vote during the general elections in their respective state of origins. The 2001 Census figures, the latest available, show that 1.57 million migrants from outside Maharashtra came to Mumbai in the period 1991-2001, which amounts to nearly 15.7 per cent of the total population. The 2011 Census figures on migration are yet to be released. “The Lok Sabha polls are always held in April-May, a period when people leave their villages in search of jobs. One can usually find people in their villages during the harvest season. Even if they want to register their names in the new city, how many actually have the relevant documents?” asks Ram Kumar, an economist at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai.
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