The Wrong Side Of The Tracks: Life At Colony
Life goes on at the Railway Colony at Dhakuria Bridge. It's not all misery and drudgery there, which some people mistakenly or intentionally mislead us into believing in their attempts to raise awareness and money for the cause.
Raising your children on railroad tracks is right up there with risks faced in war zones. Instead of facing bullets and bombs, there are disease-carrying mosquitoes and flies. The water is either contaminated or risks contamination if it isn't boiled adequately, making diarrhoeal disease -- the second largest killer of children under 5 years of age globally -- a grim possibility. Food is consumed dangerously near faeces in an area that appears to function as an open-air toilet. Easily treatable colds and flus (and numerous other viruses) likely go unattended a majority of the time in a cash-poor populace that counts itself fortunate when there is available or affordable food. Death by train may be quick and considerably less frequent, but it's the silent and long-term health risks that are more lethal for adults and children living in such conditions.
People buy, cook, and eat their food between, on, or near the train tracks. NGOs like CRY (Child Rights and You) intervene on behalf of the children, but there is little support for the people here outside of government food relief deliveries which are frequently stolen by the very people entrusted with delivery.
Death and injury-related train accidents occur very frequently in India on the order of 15,000 fatalities or so annually with many more thousands injured.

Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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