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I am extremely sad while writing this article. Indian Common Wealth games have been illuminated by the Indian Media and GEO TV all over the world but the ugly reality behind the preparation of these games has been purposefully concealed. For the sake of saving funds and earning more from the Delhi Common-Wealth Games, India has disgustingly forced many Pre-Teen Tots (Shodar) children as labourers and is using them for the rough and tough tasks that are usually done with the help of heavy machinery. One disgusting event took place yesterday when a two year old child was run over by a truck in the construction field; bringing the total number of deaths to 45. If the Athletes still go to Delhi and if the Games are not called off, the blood of these children will be on the hands of the those who don’t pull the plug on the games. The Common-Wealth Games in Delhi were “on a knife edge” yesterday as it emerged that the crumbling stadiums have been built by children.
Tots (Shodars) as young as three were drafted in to work on dangerous building sites to prepare for the event in Delhi. Yesterday the roof of the weightlifting arena caved in, sending rubble cascading down to the judges’ seats. As the catalogue of disasters mounted yesterday, it appeared increasingly likely the event, which is due to start in 10 days, would have to be called off. On Tuesday, 28 workers were seriously hurt at the main stadium site when a concrete bridge collapsed.
And competing nations have lined up to slam the athletes’ village as “unfit for human habitation”.
The Common-Wealth Games Federation has continuously expressed concerns over the slow progress of the stadium and village which is to host around 7,000 athletes and officials, with work on the Nehru Stadium where the opening and closing ceremonies and the athletics program will be held.
In order to complete these projects, workers have been paid way below the minimum wage while being forced to live and work in substandard conditions, under tarpaulin on the construction site. Human rights have labeled the living conditions as “sub human”.
While the majority of children are in school or playing, India’s shodar children are working hard for as little as $3 a day on the construction site for the Common-Wealth Games Stadium.
Promises of extra bonuses such as money, bread and milk and an extra meal are made to parents who bring in their children to work on the site and for this, they work twelve-hour shifts. The children struggle to move baskets filled with rubble while their parents work nearby, while other youngsters struggle to pick up shovels that are as tall if not taller than as their slightly built bodies, helping with the building of the drainage system in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
In August, a two-year-old girl died when she was crushed under the wheels of a truck leaving the stadium after offloading materials, bringing the Common-Wealth death toll to 45 (Majority are children). The child had been playing nearby with other children while her parents worked.
Last February, response from the Government was sought by the High Court of Delhi over alleged failure to provide all the benefits of labour laws to workers involved in construction work of the upcoming Games. The Construction of the stadium has brought nothing but displacement and suffering for thousands of poor people in Delhi with allegations of corruption already in place. A quote of $8 million for the welfare and housing of labourers during the construction of the stadium and village was made by the government but an Indian newspaper report recently stated that only $5,000 of that budget has been spent.
Enticing Fury
Pakistan Cyber Force
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I am extremely sad while writing this article. Indian Common Wealth games have been illuminated by the Indian Media and GEO TV all over the world but the ugly reality behind the preparation of these games has been purposefully concealed. For the sake of saving funds and earning more from the Delhi Common-Wealth Games, India has disgustingly forced many Pre-Teen Tots (Shodar) children as labourers and is using them for the rough and tough tasks that are usually done with the help of heavy machinery. One disgusting event took place yesterday when a two year old child was run over by a truck in the construction field; bringing the total number of deaths to 45. If the Athletes still go to Delhi and if the Games are not called off, the blood of these children will be on the hands of the those who don’t pull the plug on the games. The Common-Wealth Games in Delhi were “on a knife edge” yesterday as it emerged that the crumbling stadiums have been built by children.
Tots (Shodars) as young as three were drafted in to work on dangerous building sites to prepare for the event in Delhi. Yesterday the roof of the weightlifting arena caved in, sending rubble cascading down to the judges’ seats. As the catalogue of disasters mounted yesterday, it appeared increasingly likely the event, which is due to start in 10 days, would have to be called off. On Tuesday, 28 workers were seriously hurt at the main stadium site when a concrete bridge collapsed.
And competing nations have lined up to slam the athletes’ village as “unfit for human habitation”.
The Common-Wealth Games Federation has continuously expressed concerns over the slow progress of the stadium and village which is to host around 7,000 athletes and officials, with work on the Nehru Stadium where the opening and closing ceremonies and the athletics program will be held.
In order to complete these projects, workers have been paid way below the minimum wage while being forced to live and work in substandard conditions, under tarpaulin on the construction site. Human rights have labeled the living conditions as “sub human”.
While the majority of children are in school or playing, India’s shodar children are working hard for as little as $3 a day on the construction site for the Common-Wealth Games Stadium.
Promises of extra bonuses such as money, bread and milk and an extra meal are made to parents who bring in their children to work on the site and for this, they work twelve-hour shifts. The children struggle to move baskets filled with rubble while their parents work nearby, while other youngsters struggle to pick up shovels that are as tall if not taller than as their slightly built bodies, helping with the building of the drainage system in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
In August, a two-year-old girl died when she was crushed under the wheels of a truck leaving the stadium after offloading materials, bringing the Common-Wealth death toll to 45 (Majority are children). The child had been playing nearby with other children while her parents worked.
Last February, response from the Government was sought by the High Court of Delhi over alleged failure to provide all the benefits of labour laws to workers involved in construction work of the upcoming Games. The Construction of the stadium has brought nothing but displacement and suffering for thousands of poor people in Delhi with allegations of corruption already in place. A quote of $8 million for the welfare and housing of labourers during the construction of the stadium and village was made by the government but an Indian newspaper report recently stated that only $5,000 of that budget has been spent.
Enticing Fury
Pakistan Cyber Force
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