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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Three workers at Central Vista contract Covid-19. Many complain of cramped living space, late wages -Vijayta Lalwani

Three workers at Central Vista contract Covid-19. Many complain of cramped living space, late wages -Vijayta Lalwani

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published Published on May 28, 2021   modified Modified on May 30, 2021

-Scroll.in

The government has barred access to the site but Scroll.in was able to visit and speak to the workers.

It was the last week of April, when a coronavirus surge was devastating Delhi, with overwhelmed hospitals running out of oxygen, and crematoriums running out of space. India’s capital was under a strict lockdown. Most economic activity had come to a halt.

But every morning, a 50-year-old construction supervisor travelled over 20 km from his home in West Delhi to the heart of the city to supervise a small part of the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious project to redevelop the Central Vista.

Across the city, most construction projects had stalled since the lockdown rules allowed only projects with workers staying on the site to operate. But an exception had been made for the Central Vista project, which was declared an “essential service”, with permissions to bring workers on buses, as Scroll.in had first reported.

The supervisor, who asked to remain anonymous, oversaw around 30 workers engaged in road construction work on the 3.2-km stretch between Rajpath and Rashtrapati Bhawan. He had been working on the site since February. He spent nearly 12 hours there everyday.

On April 26, however, he woke up with a fever and decided to skip work. When the fever did not break for days, he went to a government-run Ayurvedic hospital on May 1, he said.

There, he stood in a queue for a token and waited for over an hour before his turn came to lean towards a window, to allow a health worker to take his nasal swab, he recalled. An hour later, he was told he had tested positive for Covid-19. He asked for his test report, he said, but wasn’t given one.

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Scroll.in, 28 May, 2021, https://scroll.in/article/995968/three-workers-at-central-vista-contract-covid-19-many-complain-of-cramped-living-space-late-wages


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