Ram Charan lives with his family in the slums next to Munirka in New Delhi. He is unemployed. Every-day he stands in the Munirka market hoping that he can get daily wage work. His wife works as a domestic help in the nearby colonies. They have three children. The eldest child had to drop out of pri-mary government school. The high school is too far from Charan's house and they cannot afford the bus fees. In the 2010 Delhi budget the govern-ment announced various schemes like urban employment guarantee scheme, allocation of money for the construction of 17 new schools in Delhi, all of which could directly better the life of Charan and his family.
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