“ Andha kya mange, aankho ki roshni. Berojgar yuva kya mange, naukri—aur kya? (What a blind person needs is eye sight. What an unemployed youth needs is a job—what else?)” says Aaditya Kumar, 21, one of a group of youth studying on the pavement outside the newly constructed APJ Abdul Kalam Science Centre in Patna. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had, recently, inaugurated the Centre but it is yet to be opened for general people.

A few yards away, inside the Moin-ul-Haq stadium in the Rajendra Nagar area, several other young voters are also studying under the open sky, a tree, and a vapor light, adjacent to the local Kadam Kuan police station. These young voters make monthly rental payments of ₹3,000 to ₹5,500 for the dubious privilege of living in the dank, dingy rooms of lodges and h

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