NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid out his vision of Delhi as an ideal city where the poor, who build the city, get due space in planning and access to the best facilities. While handing over the keys of newly constructed flats to slum dwellers in Kalkaji in South Delhi, he said there is need to bridge the gap between “posh colonies” and the ones inhabited by the poor and lacking in basic civic amenities.
Flagging how the cities have been deprived of balanced and holistic development in the past decades, the PM said, “The development that you see in big cities like Delhi and where big dreams are realised, the foundation of such developments and dreams is made up of the hard work and sweat of the poor. But, unfortunately, these poor have been made to live in deplorable conditions. When there is such an imbalance in one single city, who can think of holistic development?”
