The resettlement land begins a kilometer and a half from here. As you move along this road, there is empty land on either side, which will be allotted. Allotment has begun from the other end, that is the other extreme of the road. That end is where the Haryana border begins. There is a small village that is settled at that end, and which serves as a source of drinking water.
The man in the photo, Prem
babu, tells a plastic factory has been removed from here, to make this land ready for resettlement.
[ Daily Life ]
by Nangla Lab
@ 27.05.2006 09:04 CET
"A cooling river and a pair of hissing serpants flank Nanglamachi. The river is the Yamuna, and the serpants are the two wide lanes of the Ring Road with their speeding traffic. Even stranger clasp each others' hands to navigate across the Ring Road." [A popular description of the Ring Road, at Nangla.]
[ Eviction ]
by Nangla Lab
@ 14.05.2006 23:00 CET
At the time of demolition, and in talking about demolition, what gets lost is the making of the space. People who live in Nangla have come from Bihar, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, etc. They came into the city, and perhaps were already living somewhere, when to save their rent, they started to make a new space instead. People do not settle somewhere to take over land.
[ Eviction ]
by Nangla Lab
@ 11.05.2006 12:25 CET
It was the 34th day from the day of the first demolition of Nangla. Nangla had lived each day with a new sound, a new noise. Today Nangla had begun to recall the sounds of the day people had first come there, with their few household items, to live here. But the time was not the same. A tent had come up on the other side of the road, below the DLF board. A crowd had gathered outside Nangla to witness the tent. People had returned to Nangla with a few household items.
Shadows are bound to form and follow us around as the sun's youthfulness increases. Settlements in Delhi today are not untouched by the demolition of Nangla. They also feel the scorch of the orbit of time that Nangla has passed through, and continues to, still. For instance, LNJP also perceives its future through Nangla.
Inside all those places, which are termed illegal by the government, is a different story. The government plants the stake of its stamp on a place - “this is government property”. And in response, we place our small bundles of receipts and papers gathered from past time till today. But still, we are shunned, because the world moves on the basis of documents.
In the last few days, things have been made and unmade, there have been doubts about what it is that is being made, what is being unmade, and questions about what the new plan is, after all. A dwelling is broken, and along with it, its time, weave, modes of living, questions about life are ripped apart, and replaced with turbulence, tension, and a realisation that even the eye of law has stopped casting its gaze upon the dwelling.
That this Special Leave Petition is directed against the interlocutory order passed by the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi vide which the Hon’ble High Court, without hearing the people who were going to be affected by the said order, in total contravention of their fundamental right of Right to Shelter under Article 21 of the Constitution, international conventions and also the government policy in this regard, directed the Delhi Development Authority and the Commissioner of Delhi Police to remove all the slum dwellers from Nangla Machi slum without waiting for their proper resettlement/relocation.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
(CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION)
{Order XVI Rules 4(1) (a)}
(Under Article 136 of the Constitution of India)
SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) NO.____________ OF 2005.
(Against the interlocutory order passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Delhi dated 05.04.2006 in WP(C ) No. 3419 of 1999)
On May 09, 2006, Hon'ble Justice Ruma Pal and Justice Markandeya Katju of the Supreme Court, set a time of three weeks for the demolition of the remainder of Nangla Maanchi. The half an hour hearing was held in Court Number 02 (as item number 16) of the Supreme Court, Barakhamba Road, Delhi, from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM.
