Ahmedabad: Aawas Adhikar Zumbesh to take out rally to demand houses for slum dwellers

Jhala also said that the Anandiben government had promised to build 47000 houses for the slum dwellers during the current year but nothing had been done so far.

Aawas Adhikar Zumbesh (AAZ) representative Bharatsinh Jhala has declared that his organisation would take out a rally on September 21 from Sardarbaug to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to demand houses for the people living in hutments in slum pockets.

Addressing media persons, Jhala and others working with the organisation said that ‘there was a large number of people whose hutments got dismantled and household goods were carried away by strong winds in 2005. The then chief minister Narendra Modi had promised to pay compensation to these slum dwellers, but no compensation was given till date.’

He also said that the Anandiben government had promised to build 47000 houses for the slum dwellers during the current year but nothing had been done so far.

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Jhala said that there were more than 600 families who were shifted from hutment clusters behind Indian Institute of Management(IIM) to Keswani Nagar in Shahwadi area in 2003. However, they were not given any document or allotment letter by AMC.

Dalai Omaji Marwadi, a resident of Shahwadi, said that about two years ago, AMC tried to remove them from there and demolished 150 of the huts. However, an intervention by the Jan Sangharsh Manch prevented the rest of the huts from being demolished.

Qadarbhai Malek, a resident of S P Mukherjee Nagar in Vatva, said that he was shifted from riverfront to this place, but the 864 houses allotted in this colony were not provided power and water supply.

According to AAZ, there were a total of 720 hutment clusters in Ahmedabad city.

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