They Don’t Offer them even a glass of Water!
by Ashok Nanchahal (D906 New Friends Colony)
In New Friends Colony at local Parks around Mata Ka Mandir unemployed job seekers daily wander here and there, they wish to go abroad to earn more. Here in Bharat Nagar adjoining the New Friends Colony, number of Placement agencies are doing this job, they advertise in local papers of Punjab, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Bengal for various jobs offers.
After seeing the advertisement job scekers start packing their ‘pethu bag’ with bare minimum clothes, one tooth brush and documents required for the job along with their Passport.
In Bharat Nagar the agents are sitting in 10×10 rooms, without washroom or any other facility; they don’t have any chair or stool to offer the job seekers. So the peon takes their papers and asks them to go and sit in nearby parks, they come out from their box type rooms to enjoy fresh air in Parks. They use public utilities and create all types of unbearable filth and smell, as most agents do not even have water to offer. However, they are health conscious and they buy some packed water bottle whereas others go by the available tap water. The local vendors selling water and cold drinks are smart they get the MCD taps uprooted to increase their sale.
The agent’s peon comes to the park and announces a few names to appear for interview or to get some tests done by some doctor etc etc.
These job seekers have faded face, no happiness in eyes, diminishing ambitions’ are in suspicious state to face these two words “Yes” “No”. They are Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs but economically very weak. All look the same; they have one religion, one faith, one goal, one job, one Passport. They are helpful to each other have no hard feelings. In parks they share whatever they are eating.
One is going abroad so that the condition of his family may improve, others have some ambitions to become rich and marry some good girl. They have desires but destination is not clear so much so that even the country they are likely to go to is not clear, the Agent may dispatch any of them anywhere.
They sit in day light burning Sun, some time on iron benches of Park which are hotter than hot, sometimes lie down under shadow of trees keeping their lone bag under their head.
The Chhole Bhature wala standing alongside the railing of Park serves these boys on broken wooden block (they call it table) which is standing inside the park on two legs and the other two on broken bricks. He serves Bhature on Newspaper pages putting his arms inside the park railing and Chhole in some paper bowls. These boys happily accept smell of rotten oil coming out of big fry pan. Here some other choices are also there, one is giving roasted chana, one selling boiled moong ki dal with aaloo with sprinkle of masala and lemon, some are roaming and attracting their attention by making all kinds of voices to sell moongfalees and murmure. But there is no water in the vicinity even if it is available it is hot.
In this colony very very big multi millionaires are residing they do lot of charities in temples, hospitals, schools to earn name and awards, space in Print media, TV and social media. Are they really so busy not to be able to see what is going on under their nose. The local Associations should come forward only for the sake of name so that no one is able to question what type of Rich people, who have no feelings for us job seekers, these people of NFC New Delhi don’t even offer even a glass of water.
