Delhi vows to rid streets of beggars before 2010 Commonwealth Games

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6719599.ece

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Delhi already has a posse of urban cowboys patrolling its streets to round up cattle — one of several measures imposed to sanitise the city before next year’s Commonwealth Games. Now the capital’s leaders have promised to eradicate the city’s 60,000 beggars: a mission that experts fear will victimise the most vulnerable.

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Created by Niluccio on 20 July 2009

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First in a series of 'street clearing' stories from India ahead of the Commonwealth Games next year?

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