[Reader-list] Fwd: Eviction plan of Basti Nizamuddin.

[Yousuf]

Looking at stories of all the parties, it looks like MCD and Agha Khan are not hand in glove about this - they are rather distanced. Whatever be the exact plans of MCD, the middle level officers of MCD are always out to exploit the poor people for their own gains. This has been seen in all the so-called illegal colonies: the MCD officers come and threaten the residents on pretext of the impending demolition, where in reality nothing exists on paper. An example of this case is the rumour that was spread that all structures within 30 meters of Yamuna will be demolished - it spread such scare in all areas parallel to the river. Some officers actually came to places like Okhla and Batla House and started measuring the areas near Yamuna and marked many housed that were to come within 30 meters. It is reported that some houses were "unmarked" later by them after some "understandings". However, it has now been proved that no such verdict or law about 30 meters existed anywhere -
 it was a hoax. So, the real challange is find out what the intentions of MCD are.
   
   

Sudeshna Chatterjee <sudeshna.kca at gmail.com> wrote:
    This just came to me from a resident of Nizamuddin. What shall we do?
   
  Sudeshna

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From: Riyaz Qureshi <riyazq at hotmail.com>
Date: Apr 15, 2007 1:34 PM 
Subject: Eviction plan of Basti Nizamuddin.
To: sudeshna.kca at gmail.com

Dear Dr. Chatterjee,

i was deeply touched by your concern about the residents of Basti Nizamuddin 
which i read at
http://readerlist.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2007/04/09/re-reader-list-response-to-ratish-re-nizamuddin-basti.html .
As a resident of Basti let me thank you on behalf of all the residents. i
must admit that i myselft was unaware of some of the facts which you gave
there.

In contrast to Mr. Ratish's reply to you, MCD team visited Basti on 14/4/07 
asking all the shopkeepers to produce the property papers in the MCD office.
And a hindi daily carries the news today of demolition plan. (I hope you are
aware of that). i feel MCD and Aga Khan people are hand in glove into this. 
i personally and most people in Basti are not against the development and
beautification but we certainly are against the this approach. i feel people
from Basti should be taken into confidence ignoring their "vested interests" 
(as described by Mr. Ratish).

Residents of Basti have filed 2 RTIs with MCD and the response is still
awaited. Could yiou please enlighten us more on this issue and give us some
guidelines for the course of action. 

Thanks & Regards.
Riyaz Qureshi
cell No:9899227860

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