No construction is allowed in Delhi’s lockdown unless workers live on site. But 180 vehicles have been given permission to bring workers to the Central Vista.
Amid Health Crisis, Central Vista Project Work to Continue As Essential Service
According to the report, some workers said they could not go home as they had not been paid their wages by respective construction firms.
Construction workers walk past a hoarding featuring Indiaâs new parliament building outside its construction site in New Delhi, India, December 10, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
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New Delhi: As the country in general and national capital in particular reels under a severe health crisis, with its health system under pressure amid a rising number of COVID-19 cases, the work on the Modi government’s Central Vista project has been permitted to continue as an “essential service”,