Wednesday, March 2, 2011

'Where have all the beggars gone?'....they are all here yaar!!!

Pioneer carried a few days back a news item under the above title.
They have taken an abode in LDA owned parks or spaces allegedly as tenants of invisible 'forces'.
The other day I happened to visit a workshop to get my car serviced in a newly established trans-Gomti area. There was a huge cluster of about a hundred Jhopris in a large vacant piece of land (LDA's?) facing it.
A passerby informed that they are paying rent to some influential person who has thwarted attempts to get them evicted.
This experience was repeated while driving around in Priyadarshini Colony on Sitapur Road as well as while passing through Engg College - Indiranagar Road (Ring Road) near Jagrani Hospital.
Let any investigative journalist of Pioneer visit these areas with a photographer and discover the truth.