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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Demolitions, Evictions and Toilets for Show: How Indore Won Swachh Bharat's Top Rank -Sukanya Shantha

Demolitions, Evictions and Toilets for Show: How Indore Won Swachh Bharat's Top Rank -Sukanya Shantha

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published Published on Oct 13, 2017   modified Modified on Oct 13, 2017
-TheWire.in

In an attempt to make the city ‘open defecation free’, families who had paid for toilets and were midway through construction allege that their houses were destroyed before surveyors came around.

Indore: In November last year, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) officials moved around in the city in twos or threes to ensure that every household without a personal toilet was enumerated. Nanjubai’s house was one among 40 – all belonging to the Bhil community – built on one end of the Sukhniwas road. An official meeting was called with all the residents, details collected from each household and the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan scheme explained.

At the end, Nanjubai and the others were informed that they would have to pay about Rs 1,360 within a week – the subsidised amount to be paid to get a toilet built under the scheme. For Nanjubai, a 22-year-old mother of four whose husband works as a daily-wage labourer, this was a hefty sum. But a separate toilet also seemed like a gateway to a dignified life in the future. “I was excited that I would soon be able to use a personal toilet and would not have to worry about using open spaces during the night time or even walk a kilometre to use a public toilet. My house would have its own.”

As soon as the families paid, the IMC followed up by digging pits, one for each house. But then there was nothing – no officials showed up. And suddenly, on January 12, when Nanjubai’s family had barely woken up, a team of 20 IMC officials and eight police personnel descended at her doorstep. In less than 15 minutes, the officials had taken position, directing the JCB driver to raze the houses to the ground.

“They began knocking at our doors at 6 am and asked us all to step out immediately. We were asked to either save our lives or our belongings; we chose our lives. In no time, all our belongings were crushed. Our houses were razed to the ground and we were made homeless,” said Nanjubai.

According to another resident, Neena Chouhan, who also lost her house to demolition, some families tried to prevent the officials from evicting them from the spot. “But we were told we could not live here if our houses do not have toilets. What was the point, then of collecting money from us to build toilets?”

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TheWire.in, 2 October, 2017, https://thewire.in/183503/indore-swachh-bharat-abhiyan/


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