Furore after video shows Indore civic body staff trying to dump elders on highway

A workforce of Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) employees was on Friday caught on video trying to dump homeless elders by the aspect of a highway.

The video reportedly shot by a number of locals and extensively shared on-line shows two IMC employees trying to transfer a person and a frail, aged lady wrapped in filthy rags right into a Corporation car after opposition from villagers in Kshipra on the outskirts of Indore City.

The locals protested the IMC employees’ transfer to dump the aged individuals on the highway throughout the chilly winter when the mercury touched 7.2 levels Centigrade on the earlier [Thursday] evening.

The BJP authorities within the State criticised the behaviour of the IMC workers.

“Today, I got information about inhuman treatment of old people by Municipal Corporation employees in Indore… two employees, including the Deputy Commissioner, [who were] responsible have been suspended. The District Collector has been instructed to take proper care of the elderly,” the Chief Minister tweeted.

“Inhuman treatment towards the elderly will not be tolerated at any cost. Every aged person should get respect and love. This is our culture and also human religion,” he added.

Acting swiftly, Madhya Pradesh Urban Administration Minister Bhupendra Singh dismissed the 2 workers.

However, as per media stories, the IMC has defended the act of its workers by sustaining that they have been really serving to the individuals.

IMC Additional Commissioner Abhay Rajangaonkar claimed that the municipal workers have been transferring the homeless individuals to an evening shelter. He denied allegations that that they had been dropped off on the outskirts of town.

Opposition slams govt.

The State’s essential Opposition social gathering, the Congress, launched a scathing assault on the BJP authorities.

“In the name of cleanliness, officials of the Indore Municipal Corporation left the elderly in the cold. What can the poor officials do… they are working according to the ideology of the BJP, which has left out many elderly leaders… like Advaniji, Joshiji, Yashwant Sinha,” Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja mentioned.

The industrial capital of Madhya Pradesh and often called ‘Mini Bombay,’ Indore was adjudged India’s cleanest metropolis for 4 consecutive years by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.