Days after several media reports highlighted the plight of the migrant labourers residing in the Yamua river bed near the Kashmere Gate bus terminal, the Delhi Government on Wednesday finally asked the Delhi Police to get the area vacated and take the migrants to a shelter home.
The Delhi Police on Wednesdaay reached the Kashmere Gate area with buses to relocate the migrant labourers, who were residing in the Yamuna riverbed just below the flyover that connects east Delhi's Geeta Colony with the Kashmere Gate Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT).
Over 2,000 migrant labourers were forced to stay on the riverbed were living in pathetic situation with no facilities of drinking water and toilets. They got food during the day and night when it arrived at the nearby night shelters.
The Yamuna riverbed where these migrant labourers were staying for more than 10 days is just two kilometres away from the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lt Governor Anil Baijal.