Why the need to escape?

"The Supreme Court Wednesday pulled up the Centre on the number of deaths of manual scavengers and for not providing them with protective gear, PTI reported. The top court said over 70 years have passed since India's independence but caste discrimination persists." While all of us share in the court's anguish it is not possible to understand the reasoning. What protective gear? Will gas masks suffice or will these people need air cylinders to breathe and if so will there be room to work inside cramped spaces? And what has it got to do with caste? It is true that upper caste people will not touch waste but surely no one is forcing lower caste people to do such work. It is not as if they are put in chain gangs and forced down into sewers. "In no country, people are sent to gas chambers to die. Every month four to five persons are losing their lives in manual scavenging," the court said. Is it alright if they go to Italy to die in gas chamber? "Four Sikh men from Punjab have drowned in a slurry tank on a dairy farm near Pavia in northern Italy. Investigators suspect that the four were overcome by carbon dioxide fumes from the cow manure." The real question is what drives people to do this kind of work? The answer has to be poverty, lack of education and lack of jobs. According to a United Nations (UN) multidimensional poverty index, India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016 based on "assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition". The bad news is that 369 million still remain in extreme poverty. This is despite numerous social schemes launched over the years by previous governments and added to by the present government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "India was the leading country of origin of international migrants in 2019 with a 17.5 million strong diaspora, according to new estimates released by the United Nations." On top of that there has been a 996% rise in the number of Indians seeking "political asylum in other countries on the grounds that they feel fearful to continue living in the country". We may dismiss those seeking asylum in the US, Australia or Europe as economic migrants pretending to be victimized but shockingly Indians have applied for asylum in Yemen, Sudan, Burundi and Bosnia among 57 countries. Everyone knows of the civil war and famine in Yemen. After months of protests over the state of the economy in Sudan, which resulted in several deaths, its military rulers agreed a power sharing deal with the civilian opposition. President Pierre Nkurunziza has unleashed a wave of violence with "summary executions, rapes, abductions, beatings, and intimidation of suspected political opponents" in Burundi. Is India more threatening than these countries so that people feel the need to escape anywhere? What about us who remain?