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As migrants leave after riots in India’s Gurugram, activists say workers need better protection
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People search through the rubble of a scrap shop that was vandalised by a mob in Gurugram, on Aug 1.
PHOTO: REUTERS
NEW DELHI - In early August, a video of a woman complaining about how rubbish was collecting in her apartment complex in the north Indian city of Gurugram went viral. The rubbish had accumulated because the migrant workers who were the housekeeping staff had fled following communal tensions.
“Our society has become so dirty! There’s so much garbage piling up, who will take it away?” said the woman, Ms Kiran Kapoor, head of the residents’ welfare association in charge of running the Tulip Orange apartment complex.
