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INDIA: A HOME IN THE CITY INCREASINGLY ELUDES NEW DELHI'S POOR.

Publication: Interpress Service
Publication Date: 26-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
by Leena D.

NEW DELHI, Dec. 26, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- For 35 years Rama Krishna Puram, an old south Delhi neighborhood, has been Sheela's home. She works in the nearby government offices on yearly contracts cleaning and fetching things for officials.

While most of her working-class colleagues spend two hours or more commuting in crowded public buses to get to work, Sheela merely walks across from her home in Ekta Vihar, a slum which was upgraded in the 1980s to provide basic amenities like safe water and electricity.

In a city where escalating rents and property prices have edged even middle-class professionals out of many areas, Sheela can count herself among the minority that has been able to live and work continuously in the same neighborhood for three decades.

As Delhi's...

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