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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Forced Evictions in Delhi: Slum Residents Face ‘Triple Whammy’ -Ronak Chhabra

Forced Evictions in Delhi: Slum Residents Face ‘Triple Whammy’ -Ronak Chhabra

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published Published on May 11, 2021   modified Modified on May 12, 2021

-Newsclick.in

About 200 families residing in the informal housing settlements in Delhi were directly or indirectly affected by the demolition drive carried out by the authorities in the month of April.

Slum dwellers in the national capital find their woes compounded by the looming threat of forced evictions by the government authorities – that continued apace last year and has not spared families despite the resurgence in COVID-19 cases now.

About 200 families residing in the informal housing settlements in Delhi were directly or indirectly affected by the demolition drive carried out by the authorities in the month of April. The eviction drives coincided with the surge in infection cases, putting under extreme stress the sub-optimal healthcare infrastructure in the city.

More worryingly, the evictions were carried out without any rehabilitation or alternative arrangements for the slum residents, activists have alleged.

“There had been three major evictions of bastis in Delhi in the month of April,” Shakeel Ahmed of Delhi Housing Rights Task Force (DHRTF) told NewsClick on Tuesday, May 11. Houses were demolished at Kalka Stone Basti, Lal Kuan in South Delhi; at Tughlaqabad Railway Basti in South Delhi; and, at Chilla Khadar in East Delhi, he added.

DHRTF is a coming together of residents, housing rights activists, lawyers and researchers in the wake of growing incidents of forced evictions in the national capital.

All these eviction drives were carried out before the shutdown measures were imposed in the city in April, according to Ahmed, who is also the convenor of Basti Suraksha Manch. “Actually, the eviction drives never really stopped in the city. There were 20 evictions carried out by different agencies despite a pandemic since last year. ,” he rued.

Lockdown was announced in Delhi from April 19 by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the face of a high positivity rate, an index of the pandemic’s current severity and its potential spread.

“There are no incidents of forced evictions reported in May as yet. As far as the affected families are concerned, some of them are now shifted to some makeshift arrangements. Many among them are also left in the open – without any roof now,” Ahmed said.

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Newsclick.in, 11 May, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/Forced-Evictions-Delhi-Slum-Residents-Face-Triple-Whammy?amp&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0ut4ujA5RCWm45GVWiuLrwDR6koE-7Gd6iBaH-vh2S7ak7Zpzka7EmXRI


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