Click to play videoNew Delhi: With the Commonwealth Games just round the corner, the government is trying to spruce up the city by removing all the migrant labourers and homeless people from the streets of Delhi.
First it was the Yamuna flooding and now it’s the Commonwealth Games that forced many of the migrant labourers to pack their belongings and shift base yet again.
On Saturday, Delhi government officials ordered that all those living in relief camps on the road leading up to the Games Village, vacate the place and move to an alternate site, far away from the eyes of the visiting delegates.
Thousands of maids, drivers and industrial workers are being packed off to railway stations and forcibly made to board trains to their native states — all as part of security ‘clean-up’ for the Games.
Residents claim ration and election cards are being torn up and workers being told not to return before the Games are over.
Nearly 2000 people, displaced by the Yamuna have now been accommodated in a temporary camp in East Delhi. While some are happy with the arrangements, most are complaining.
On any other ordinary night, several streets of Delhi would be crowded with people catching their sleep. But now, a drive through Delhi at night shows a different picture. It looks unreal and empty. The city seems to have been completely sanitised in the run up to the Games, with all signs of poverty being pushed away from the prying eyes of the visitors.
Embarrassed by the presence of these people, temporary living arrangements have helped the government spruce up the city ahead of the Games. As this issue is being swept under the rug, questions are being raised as to what the government plans to do with these people once the Games are over.
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