Never Restoration, BUT Restoration
Kaushal Kishore, the young minister for housing and urban politics, stated in parliament in July that between April 1 and July 27, at least 49 destruction drives were carried out in New Delhi, with almost 230 acres of public property being reclaimed.
To make the area more attractive for the G20 summit, he claimed,” No property has been demolished.”
Mohammed Shameem, another resident, was rudely shocked by the destruction of the Janta Camp huts because he believed that the” big people” attending the G20 summit do” offer something to the poor.”
” Here, the opposite is taking place. He predicted that large folks would visit, lay on our tombs, and eat.
The demolishment of Kumar’s house and the expulsion of his relatives had deeper meanings for him because he works as a clerk in the Pragati Maidan office.
” My children’s schooling will suffer if we move out of here.” Because the college is close by, they are able to analyze here, he said.
Srishti, 5, and Eshant, 10, are two of Kumar’s children who attend a local state university. Anokhee, his younger girl, is nine months old.
The home, which even includes Khushboo Devi’s father, had lived in their shack for 13 years before being asked to leave” because the place had to be cleaned.”
” If they must clean, that does not imply that they will evict the needy.” Devi told Reuters that if the poor are in such bad shape, they can make things good or cover them with a curtain or sheet to hide them.
Kumar and his wife started organizing their possessions, which were lying scattered by the side of the road, as the excavators left after destroying their properties.
After that, they loaded these items into a three-wheeler that took them to their new home, which was one room 10 kilometers away and for which they had to pay an annual rent of 2, 500 rupees( US$ 30.21 ).
In the meantime, their child dusted off all her parents owned, including a peach gown that had been thrown to the ground.
The family moved back to a portion of the Janta Camp place that had been spared by the excavators two months later, in August, paying an additional fee of 3,500 pounds per room.
” From the spot we were staying earlier, it was challenging for my kids to travel to school every time. We came back for their benefit because I want them to succeed in school, Kumar said.