Anti-encroachment drive at Jasola, Sarita Vihar cancelled due to unavailability of police personnel: SDMC

An anti-encroachment drive of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) scheduled at Jasola and Sarita Vihar was cancelled due to the unavailability of adequate police force on Thursday, the civic authorities said.

At Jahangirpuri, Bulldozers crush livelihoods

Sheikh Abdul Mannan was not aware about the demolition drive that took the employment of many living in Block-C of Jahangirpuri. When he woke up at 8 am, he got to know about the North MCD’s demolition drive. Around 9 in the morning North MCD officials reached the locality to start its two-day anti-encroachment drive. […]

A jhuggi behind the WHO office tells tales of civic decay: Who’s responsible?

Right behind the WHO office, an unhygienic slum mocks at the lofty ideals the international body promotes, and makes a mockery of the Delhi Master Plan, the municipal authorities’ alertness and the boasts of slum redevelopment

Facing eviction, residents of Lakarpur Khori have nowhere to go  

Following a directive from the Supreme Court to evict illegal settlements in the Khori village of Faridabad, residents of the village face an uncertain future amidst the pandemic  On June 7, uncertainty gripped the minds of residents of Lakarpur Khori, a small village on the foothills of the Aravali hills in the Faridabad district of […]

Street battles

From being evicted to getting their materials confiscated, street vendors in the capital continue to face uncertainty even four years after the implementation of the Street Vendors Act “I sat on a hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in 2014, in order to get the Street Vendors Act passed, so that I could have a stable […]