Saturday, 01 JUNE 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The chief media coordinator of Uttarakhand Congress Rajiv Mehrishi has demanded that the State government should make immediate arrangements for rehabilitation of the people affected by the demolition drive being conducted on the orders of National Green Tribunal (NGT) in the slums on the Rispana riverbed. He said that the drive is being done at the peak of summers when heat wave like conditions are prevailing. It is inhuman to displace people in such a condition. Mehrishi said that under the JNNURM project there was a provision for the rehabilitation of people displaced from slums but from the attitude of the government it appears as if this provision has been kept on hold. He said that the situation aggravated due to the fact that no attempt was made to put a rein on those selling government land on the riverbed. The Congress leader said that poor families had spent their life time savings in constructing a roof over their heads but the apathetic government has demolished their homes.
He said that the government machinery was in slumber when these slums were taking shape.
