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India's capital city has been flooded with a new wave of migrant workers -- children.
Posted at ForeignPolicy.com
BY KAYVAN FARZANEH, ANDREW SWIFT
Bring Your Child to Work Day: In New Delhi there are upwards of 100 construction projects underway in preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games scheduled to take place from Oct. 4 to 13. These projects -- ranging from several new stadiums to a new international airport terminal -- are drawing vast numbers of migrant workers from all over India to provide the extra labor needed. Contractors, already behind schedule, are taking advantage of lax labor laws and coercing their employees to bring their children to work alongside them, promising payments of bread and milk. Above an Indian girl carries a brick at a construction site in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Feb. 3.
MY COMMENT:
India is spending billions on weapons and has given one billion dollars to Afghanistan in order to create an anti-Pakistan base there. But here's the real India, the world's largest concentration of poverty and health problems. But you won't see this on CNN because US needs cheap Indian soldiers to die in Afghanistan instead of Americans.
India is the world's largest HYPOCRATE (Spelling may be wrong) country in the world.
ReplyDeleteThe world should know that.
Despite India's poverty, it is willing to help an impoverished neighbour. I think that's a pretty decent thing to do.
ReplyDeleteAnd which Mr Gandhi are you talking about? The one who died in 1948 or 1991? Because the younger Mr Gandhi is just a political worker and not a member of the cabinet.