They have to share beds on the street, use unclean washrooms.
Two men sat outside the gate of Lok Nayak Hospital on a bed sheet spread over a flex sheet. Behind them, from the hospital’s brick wall, hung a violet mosquito net. The arrangement is their bed for the night.
“We used to sleep inside GB Pant Hospital till five nights ago. But the guards kicked us out and now we sleep here on the footpath. There are too many mosquitoes here and even Odomos doesn’t work. So we got this mosquito net four-five days ago for ₹150,” said Kirpal Singh (46), as he shared the bed sheet with Sandeep Dubey (50).
Express News Service
RAIPUR: The decades-long struggle by the people displaced by the Gangrel dam project launched in 1972, came to an end with the Chhattisgarh High Court issuing order to the state to suitably compensate the 8,560 affected families within three months.
The court also issued a directive to rehabilitate the families by providing them land.
The project was launched during the erstwhile Madhya Pradesh state in Dhamtari district, some 90 km from Raipur, which led to the evacuation of 55 villages that were later submerged, and the inhabitants were given the assurance of suitable compensation in return.
Gangrel is the longest dam in Chhattisgarh built on the Mahanadi river and supplies water for irrigation.