For many street vendors and those crammed into New Delhi’s shantytowns, the makeover has meant displacement and loss of livelihood.
| New Delhi’s crowded streets have been resurfaced. Streetlights are illuminating once dark sidewalks. City buildings and walls are painted with bright murals and graffiti. Planted flowers are everywhere.
But for many street vendors and those crammed into New Delhi’s shantytowns, the makeover has meant displacement and loss of livelihood, raising questions about the government’s policies on dealing with poverty. In a city of more than 20 million people, the 2011 census had the homeless at 47,000, but activists say that was a vast underestimate and that the real number is at least 150,000.
“The money used for G20 is taxpayers’ money. Everyone pays the tax. Same money is being used to evict and displace them,” he said. “It doesn’t make any sense.” Last month, Indian police intervened to stop a meeting of prominent activists, academics and politicians critical of Mr Modi and his government’s role in hosting the G20 summit and questioning whose interests the summit would benefit.
“Everyone is behaving as if they are blind,” Ms Devi said. “In the name of the G20 event, the farmers, workers and the poor are suffering.”Home to 1.4 billion people, India’s struggle to end poverty remains daunting, even though a recent government report said that nearly 135 million – almost 10 per cent of the country’s population – moved out of so-called multidimensional poverty between 2016 and 2021.
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