Friday, March 7, 2008

LATEST UPDATE

Following the report by "Youth for Justice" Eminent journalist and diplomat Sri Kuldip Nayar and Magsaysay awardee social activist Arvind Kejriwal have joined local villagers in petitioning the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the appalling living conditions of labourers at the impugned site for the Commonwealth Games Village in the river bed which has resulted in spread of meningitis amongst the latter resulting in deaths ofmany of them. The complaint to the NHRC was delivered this morning for urgent inquiry and action in the matter against all relevant authorities including the DDA, MCD, Labour Commissioner and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) which have failed to ensure that the living conditions of labour at the site is hygeinic and secure.