New Delhi: They are your service providers who quietly enter your lives every morning to make your homes liveable and then crawl back into their unliveable hovels in narrow lanes with open drains, where sunlight never finds its way. The residents of Bhoomiheen Camp in Kalkaji have been doing this for years. Crossing a congested and garbage-strewn road infested by stray cattle to go to kothis in Greater Kailash-II, Chittaranjan Park and beyond, looking yearningly at what life could have been and then embracing their squalid existence once again.
Finally, some sunlight is filtering into their lives.
OP Singh, 48, who has lived in jhuggi-jhompri clusters all his life, didn’t think even in his wildest dreams that he would own a flat in Delhi. Singh, who installs solar devices in buildings, is one of the residents who has been allotted a two-room flat with a kitchen and toilet under the ‘In situ slum rehabilitation’ project.
This story is from the November 03, 2022 edition of The Times of India.
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