India, Sept. 7 -- As many as 70 families displaced by the Yamuna floods are now living in makeshift tents along the Delhi-Meerut Expressway near Akshardham, battling hardship as they sleep on damp floor, try to keep away mosquitoes. Sitting outside a tarpaulin tent, Ganga Devi wondered where will the poor go.
"It is either demolition, or rain, and now the flood. We hardly earn Rs 300 to 400 a day by cleaning Delhi's garbage. Someone is a ragpicker, some clean drains, some sell flowers, where will we go now?" she asked.
The 6x8 makeshift camp stretches along the edge of the expressway, which has been transformed into a "home" for families who recently had to be evacuated from their jhuggis or kuccha house near by the Yamuna floodplains. In...