The condition of the needy across the country seems to be deteriorating with each passing day. While there are government-led food drives, NGOs distributing free food and good Samaritans volunteering to help the underprivileged, there aremany who get left in the lurch.?
Many don't have shelter or food tosustain themselves and heartbreaking visuals of their struggleare?now showing us the reality on the ground.
More recently, a few migrant workers were reportedly seen eating discarded bananas rotting in the sun on the banks of the river Yamuna in Delhi on April 15. The men rummaged through the trash searching for any good ones that were left. The saddest part was, they?were looking for edible bananas on a cremation ground.??
According to an NDTV report, the heartbreaking incident occurred at theNigambodh Ghat, one of the main cremation grounds in Delhi. The bananas werepossibly used in rituals for the dead. In the course of their search for anedible banana, the workers came across one odd rotten roti.
"It is a banana... usually these don't go bad easily. If we pick well, they will last us a while," NDTV quoted a man looking for food as saying.
"We are not getting food regularly, so better to take these," said a migrant from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh.?
Apart from this, scores of migrant workers have taken shelter in the banks of Yamuna and are sleeping in the open. Many have lost their jobs overnight, and have been left without food or shelter. Many are having been taking an arduous journey to get back to their village on foot for miles together.?
Just the way migrants were seen scavenging for bananas, another disturbing visual that went viral a few days ago showed a man attempting to collect milk spilt on a road in Agra while a pack of stray dogs was drinking it too.
According to a?report in?NDTV, after a large milk container overturned and spilt a stream of milk down the road on Agra¡¯s Ram Bagh Chauraha, a pack of dogs started drinking the spilt milk. The dogs were joined by a man who attempted to collect as much milk as possible in a small earthen pot.?The video was shot in Agra's Ram Bagh crossing, merely six kilometers from Taj Mahal.