'Where Will We Go?' SC Order to Demolish Khori Village Leaves 1 Lakh Residents Crying for Help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMpNa-oy1T8
Jun 23, 2021 Quint goes to Khodi and speaks to people..
NAPM https://www.counterview.net/2021/06/apex-court-order-to-evict-ex-mine.html
Why the Haryana Govt Must Not Evict One Lakh Residents of Khori Gaon https://thewire.in/urban/khori-gaon-haryana-urban-poor-eviction
The demolitions of over 6,500 homes are scheduled to take place just when the monsoon arrives and we are still in a pandemic where most of the population is not vaccinated. Haryana is under partial lockdown till June 21.
The residents of Khori Gaon are the working class of NCR. They perform a range of services that keep it moving. The early residents were quarry workers who got stuck in a vicious cycle of debt to the quarry contractors. Over the years, urban poor who have been displaced from various bastis in Delhi to make way for urban development projects have also settled here. A large group also comprises low-income families who have migrated from the neighbouring states in search of jobs.
But in the Khori Gaon cases, the government has claimed that this densely packed human settlement on 120 acres is essential for forest conservation in the state. Lt. Col. Sarvadaman Singh Oberoi, who has filed several cases on forest conservation, states that the human cost of reclaiming this forest land will be the highest in the Aravalli. His broad estimates show that this will lead to the displacement of 600 people per acre and the loss of primary residences of poor people.
“There are more than a hundred farmhouses in the Aravalli forest areas running commercial or religious enterprises in villages like Mewla Maharajpur, Ankhir and Anangpur. The human cost per acre of reclaiming aravalli forests in these areas will be negligible.
https://mediaindia.eu/society/sc-order-puts-10000-families-in-faridabad-at-risk/
From BK Fb:Full power to people’s struggle for their right to housing! Women along with other residents gheraoed the officials to protest forceful demolition without rehabilitation in Khori village in Faridabad/Delhi. Tens of thousands of families facing eviction threat after the Supreme Court directed the governments to demolish decades old settlements for forest conservation efforts by completely disregarding the right to housing.
Right now farmer leaders have reached on the spot to hold maha panchayat in support of the workers who are on the verge of loosing their only shelter. We stand in solidarity with workers-farmers unity!
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