NEW DELHI : Vijayanta Arya, Delhi’s deputy commissioner of police (northwest), the mother of two very young children, leaves home at the crack of dawn every day for north Delhi’s Majlis Park area.
Here, as many as 1,000 slum dwellers are fighting a battle like no other—there’s no work, and nothing to eat. “We are acting as a link between areas where food or other essentials are required and people with the resources and willingness to cater to their needs," said the police officer.
The covid-19 pandemic has been yet another opportunity for the women and men in uniform, like Arya, to help the hungry and needy.
Majlis Park holds a special meaning for Arya and her officers, who have “adopted" all 250 families there for the entire duration of