Bhatti Village, located on the Delhi-Haryana border in south Delhi, is only a few kilometres away from the super-affluence of Chhatarpur's farmhouses but lacks basic infrastructure. Other than power, which came to the 600-year-old village in 1970 and has afforded residents a window to the outside world through their old television sets, Bhatti lacks roads, schools, dispensaries, a waste disposal system and even sufficient drinking water.
"Most men in the village are into farming and cattle rearing while some work as labourers and drivers. This year, the crop has failed due to lack of rain and there is a severe shortage of fodder for the livestock. Once the Bhatti forests were taken over by the army's eco-task force, villagers lost access to grazing grounds. Now we are totally dependent on what we manage to grow in the village," said a village elder, Jai Prakash.
Bhatti Khurd, as the village is known locally, started off as a cluster of 5-6 kuchcha huts. Some 100-150 years ago, the first pucca houses came up, and around 7-8 of these still stand, albeit in a dilapidated state. "The first 10-15 families of the village lived in these houses but as the village slowly expanded, they moved out and built concrete houses. These could not be maintained so they were abandoned. Now, many villagers have sold off their lands in nearby areas and are using the money to build bigger and fancier houses," said Vikram Tanwar, a resident. Many villagers who worked in the Bhatti mines before they shut down made enough money to build multi-storey houses. Now, with regular work hard to find, maintaining the huge structures is impos sible, something that shows in the crumbling facades of the older "fancy" houses. The outlying area has become a convenient point for dumping tonnes of construction debris that cannot be disposed of on the Yamuna riverbed. Within the village, waste is picked up once in a couple of weeks while sewage collects in small pits across the village due to lack of sewerage. Mosquito breeding is a yearly problem for residents, especially as any work that is taken up here--like the ongoing laying of drainage-will take months to complete. Dugup paths without a single board marking the usually deep pits are a common sight and people have fallen into them at night.
Dhanne, who married in the village some 20 years ago, married off her two daughters early and has sent her sons away to her sister-in-law's place near Loni. "I could not educate my daugh ters. The girls have to walk unaccompanied to the school and it is extremely unsafe.
I got them married when they were 17 18. The village has no amenities. There are four government tube wells, three of which are running dry. At least once in a month, if not more, they stop working and are not fixed for four to five days. Then we go to a nearby farmhouse to draw water. To go anywhere, even to buy groceries and vegetables, we need to walk 2-3 km. Buses come every 1-2 hours," she said.
Her mother-in-law Rajkali, who has lived in the village for at least 50 years, said she has seen no improvement ever since she arrived. "We have managed to build better houses but the government has not given us anything".
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