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Bulldozer Action: In the last few months, many slums have been removed from encroachment by removing several slums. Now people of another such township have started worrying about their home to end.

Power of slums has been cut in Vasantkunj area of Delhi. (File photo)
Highlights
- Another slum in Delhi is the risk of bulldozer running
- Local administration cut electricity connection, people under the shadow of fear
- 1100 families live in Jai Hind Colony of Vasantkunj area
Fear increased from cutting electricity connection
Jai Hind slums are delivered through the Kali Maa Temple and the meter installed in the Madina Mosque. Electricity goes into every slum through sub-meter. Local Arun said that some meters of some meters are installed outside the mosque and temple and some on their homes. Arun’s house electricity comes from the meter of this mosque. He said that on Tuesday, electricity people went away after cutting electricity, which is causing a lot of problems. There are small slums in the narrow streets of Jai Hind Slums. Kanaduri Burman, sitting in a slum, was taking air from a cardboard. Burman said that there is no electricity from July 8. Most of the colony people have slept outside the houses to avoid the heat. Burman told that she hails from Cooch Bihar in West Bengal and has been living in this slum for 16-7 years.
Rohingya and Bangladeshis accused of living
Rohingya and Bangladeshis have been accused of living in this slum. People here said that last year the police had run a drive on Rohingya and Bangladeshis, under which people’s identity cards were checked here and verified from Bengal. People also showed their ID cards. Most of the identity cards were the addresses of Cooch Behar district on Aadhaar card. A man showed the paper and said that in Bengal, there are land papers in the name of his father and he is being called Rohingya. RJD Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Jha also posted on X, raising the issue on Tuesday. Manoj Jha had criticized the government for cutting the electricity-water connection of the people living here, however, local people said that only electricity has been cut here, water is coming here.

He did high education from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. After graduating from Jhansi, PG Diploma in journalism from Delhi University. HINDUSTAN TIMES Group starts professional career …Read more
He did high education from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. After graduating from Jhansi, PG Diploma in journalism from Delhi University. HINDUSTAN TIMES Group starts professional career … Read more