Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will provide 10K Flats to relocate from the Sabarmati banks
The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday ordered the civic body to provide the alternate houses in form of flats to more than 10,000 families. By August end, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will have to provide flats to 10,283 families that had settled on either side of the Sabarmati river before December 31, 2007.
All families that had settled on either side of the Sabarmati River before December 31, 2007, will get flats in four-storied buildings at relocation sites prepared by AMC. Around 15 such relocation sites for the people living on the banks have been prepared as part of Sabarmati river front development project.
When the authorities began evacuating people from the banks in 2005, five petitioners, including Sabarmati Nagarik Adhikar Manch and activist Manishi Jani, approached the high court demanding alternative accommodation for these residents. The high court stayed authorities from removing slum dwellers.
The high court has also asked AMC-Ahmedabad to ensure that after eviction, the area is fenced properly and no new person comes to settle there.
The litigation moved further and on June 24 this year, the high court sought a list of families settled on the river banks. The civic body stated that 5,964 families were living between Subhash Bridge and Vasna Barrage as on May 15, 2002, which was the cutoff date set earlier. On Tuesday, when a bench headed by Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhaya sought status of relocation, the civic body stated that out of 5964 families identified earlier, 2,166 families have already been shifted to newly prepared flats.
However, the civic body has passed a resolution extending the cut-off date to 2007 end. The petitioner submitted a list of 4,319 families who were identified as having settled on the banks between 2002 and 2007.
The corporation submitted before the court that 4,800 flats more would be constructed by August end and all the families would be relocated by then. The high court has also directed the residents to shift to new houses within a month of their completion. Upon suggestion of petitioner’s counsel Girish Patel, the high court directed the authorities to allot the houses not to an individual, but to get it registered in the name of husband, wife and children jointly.
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