By the NewsPatron Civic Desk
It is January 2026. It is freezing cold. It has not rained in Delhi for weeks. Yet, in Sharma Enclave, Kirari, residents are wading through knee-deep black water to get to their front doors.
This isn’t stormwater. It is raw sewage.
A viral video by journalist Sharad Sharma has exposed what can only be described as a humanitarian crisis in the National Capital. It shows a reality so grim that it looks like a dystopian film, but it is the daily life of taxpayers in the Mubarakpur Dabas area.
“Left Here to Die?”
The visuals are heart-wrenching. The reporter stands in the sludge, pointing out that the water filling the streets is the same water flushing out of people’s toilets.
“Ye 8 mahine ho gaye ji. Hum bhi insaan hai, marne ke liye chhod diye ho kya yahan pe?” (It has been 8 months. We are humans too; have you left us here to die?) — Local Resident
Caught on Camera: The Real Story
The video captures the desperation of a community abandoned. Mothers carry children through toxic filth; the elderly plead for mercy. Some have been forced to abandon their homes entirely because the stench and disease risk are unbearable.
The Ground Report: “Worse Than Pakistan?”
Further investigation reveals the depth of the anger. In a detailed ground report (watch below), residents express fury at their elected representatives. One resident goes as far as to say:
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“If you don’t want to do anything, send us to Pakistan. At least there is noise about it there. Here we are dying in silence.”
The “Geographic Bowl” & The Missing Drains
Why is this happening? The data on Kirari Assembly Constituency (AC-09) is damning.
- Zero Infrastructure: This belt contains over 104 unauthorized colonies that developed rapidly without a single sewer line or stormwater drain.
- The Bowl Effect: The area is a geographic low-point. Without pumps or a trunk drain, the water has nowhere to go.
- The DDA Allegation: Residents allege that the DDA dumped garbage in an adjacent plot, blocking the natural outflow.
?221 Crore: Too Little, Too Late?
While the residents suffer, the files move at a snail’s pace. The government approved a ?221 Crore trunk drain project in November 2025, but the completion target is 2027. For the people of Sharma Enclave, a drain in 2027 does not help the sewage entering their kitchens today.
The Verdict
This is not a “civic issue”; it is a health emergency. Living in stagnant sewage for 8 months in the capital of India is a violation of basic human rights. Sharma Enclave needs emergency pumps now, not a ribbon-cutting ceremony in two years.
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