Pahadi markets are dying

If you have come down from the high of snowfall posts, here's the reality: 15 years ago in the town that I am from, the GIC had around 900 students, families that came out of villages to educate their kids used to stay there on rent, there were 3-4 junior high schools with 50 students per school and the market used to be overflowing with people in the evening. Now on weekends it looks like a ghost town. The govt employees started to put their kids in schools of rishikesh/dehradun, then the villagers followed them. Now only people working there in block headquarters office, schools, banks and police thana live there. They also run to their families living in dehradun/rishikesh on Friday evening. The local shopkeepers are on the verge of bankruptcy, there is no business. 3 story houses are being sold, shops are closing down. All because noone wants their kids to study in government school, noone wants their parents to be admitted in government hospital. Migration resulting from lack of education and medical infrastructure is more than 90% of total migration.