Υπογραφές ενάντια στην αστυνομική βία στην παροικία Kathputli

Υπογραφές ενάντια στην αστυνομική βία στην παροικία Kathputli

Δημοσίευσηαπό Στάθης Μαρκόπουλος » 04 Μαρ 2014, 09:38

Ο Dadi Pudumjee, πρόεδρος της Διεθνούς UNIMA καλεί σε διαμαρτυρία υπέρ των καλλιτεχνών κατοίκων της κοινότητας Kathputli.

https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/ ... tli-colony


Dear UNIMA National Centres,
Dadi Pudumjee, UNIMA President, hoping to see this petition collecting many signatures, invites you to sign it, as the lives of many traditional artists at the moment at Shadipur Depot in Delhi is fast fading away...
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Please sign and share the following petition. this letter can also be sent by post.
thank you for your support !

https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/ ... tli-colony

Sunayana,
on behalf of the residents of Kathputli Colony
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DDA spearheading disinformation campaign on in-situ redevelopment project at Kathputli Colony.

Residents demand transparency, withdrawal of police force and the right to participate in their redevelopment !

Kathputli Colony came into being over the past 50-60 years. The hard work of the many performers, artisans and workers who continue to live here made this possible. They improved the barren land, built our homes and provided services to the area. However, in the name of “redevelopment”, the Government land agency, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has auctioned away this land which has a value of Rs. 1043 crores (assessed according to the report of Auditor General,Delhi) in just Rs. 6 crore 11 lakhs to the private builder Raheja. Raheja Builders has been allowed to interpret the ‘Insitu Slum Redevelopment’ agreement signed in 2009, to mean luxury condominium and shopping complexes for the rich and cramped high-rise apartment buildings for those who already live here !

Why is it so ?! The government says it doesn’t have money to spend on poor and housing for the poor, and neither does it have land for them. Yet, 5.2 hectares of land (more than 13 acres) has been siphoned off to the private builders for redevelopment. The residents of Kathputli colony were not informed about this transaction and were denied the opportunity to participate or give suggestions towards developing a policy for their own redevelopment. This has become more evident from the information residents of Kathputli colony have gathered through RTI (Right to Informatiion) and discovered several irregularities in the PPP contract signed between DDA and Raheja Builders. Not only is the government giving away parcels of land to the private builder, but is also allowing them to make profits which have been calculated to being a total of approx. Rs. 2600 crores !

There will be 2700 flats that will be built in multistory buildings for the families that currently reside in Kathputli colony. These flats are not suitable for sustaining work and traditions of the residents of kathputli colony and will not be able to shelter all the members of each family. The lay out plan also shows a clear segregation of the flats being built for residents of Kathputli colony from the posh and high end flats and commercial complex. High maintenance fees for these flats will also be imposed on the resident families. At the same time, the contract signed between DDA and Raheja Builders says that 170 premium flats will be built for remunerative purposes which will each be of at least 800 sq. mts. The flats being built for the residents of kathputli colony will be of 30.5 sq mts according to the contract but when the area of these dwelling units is calculated according to the size of the room, hall, kitchen, bathroom and toilet in these, the total area amounts to only 20.9 sq. mts. In addition, the Viability Calculation for the project gives a figure of 19.62 sq.m as the area of one dwelling unit. The total land over which the housing component for the residents of Kathputli colony will be built totals to only 20 % of the land being given away to the private builders !

During the construction period, DDA will be 'shifting' all families from their land to a transit camp at Anand Parbat which people have reported are built of thin sheets and donot have enough space to house their families or store their sources of livelihood and are unsafe. There are no basic services like water, electricity and toilets for people at the transit camp. Further, there are more than 3200 families that reside at Kathputli colony and all of them have not been included by the DDA in their survey inspite of having all documents required under the DDA resettlement policy. When people of Kathputli colony went to raise these concerns with the VC, DDA and expressed their disapproval over being shifted into transit camp, the VC, DDA taunted them asking "Do you expect me to build bungalows for you !?"

The SEAC ( State Environmental Appraisal Committee ) and the DUAC ( Delhi Urban Arts Commission) both scrutinized the contract signed between the Raheja Builders and DDA and had raised some questions on the site plan and maps prepared for the project. These however seem to have been overlooked by both DDA and Raheja Builders who are in a rush to implement this PPP project and have been using coercion to make families sign demolition slips since 24th February 2014. Inspite of such coercion families at Kathputli colony stand united and only 50 families have registered so far according to the DDA. The residents of Kathputli colony are appealing for support at this moment since complaints made against physical assault by SHO on women and men of Kathputli colony are being ignored by the authorities.

A draft Agreement for Resettlement of Slum Dwellers was submitted by Raheja to DDA on 29/06/2011. Why did DDA not prepare its own draft Agreement that would protect the rights of the “Slum Dwellers” after consulting Residents of kathputli colony ? It is becoming more and more evident that this is an effort to snatch away land from us.

It has also been mentioned that this project is under the Rajiv Awas Yojana. Then why have people not been allowed to participate as per guidelines that clearly allow for beneficiary led redevelopment ? Residents had also been assured by Lt. Shri Rajiv Gandhi, with whom they travelled across the globe to perform and earn respect for our country, that they will be given plots of land and his words are still remebered by them.

Most of the politicians and elected representatives are not voicing people's concerns but are protecting their own interests. The residents of Kathputli colony have written to all concerned departments but have not received any official or written response or information from them.

The Vice Chairman of DDA has claimed that the 90% of the people are willing to move to the transit camp but the same news report reveals that DDA has actually been able to obtain only 50 agreements to shift. The "allotment certificate" that is being given as part of this 'agreement' is actually a "demolition slip" that states that the recipient's jhuggi has been "demolished" as an "encroacher on government land". No rights to resettlement have been recorded in this slip.

Of the roughly 3200 families on the site who were surveyed in 2010-11 only 2641 families figure in the list published on DDA's website on 24 February 2014. Over half of these families are recorded to have no supporting documents other than the ration card - which will have to be further verified. There is no transparency on whether the DDA Guidelines of 20/04/2010, or the DUSIB Guidelines of 19/02/2010, or the PPP model has a completely arbitrary decision making process.

In response the residents of Kathputli Colony have been urging the authorities that multi-storey housing is not suitable for their livelihoods and culture, does not provide space for expansion, and is prohibitively expensive to maintain. Since the DDA-Raheja agreement expired in September 2011 and can be revoked for non-performance, the residents have offered in writing to the DDA as well as the Lt. Governor to pay Rs. 6 crores 11 lakhs for the same land, while requesting that the developers be given the transit camp land instead under a new agreement.

The Lt. Governor did agree at a meeting in his office on February 24 to give people time until April 1 for formulating a workable plan for their redevelopment. But DDA officials are refusing to recognise this agreement and consistently spreading disinformation while using police action and threatening with presence of bulldozers to 'persuade' residents to apply for relocation to the transit camp.

There is a growing fear that DDA and Raheja Builders are going to demolish the homes and livelihoods of the residents of Kathputli colony and disregard the rights possessed by them if they are not stopped in time.

The residents of Kathputli colony have always demanded that they should be given land right here at Kathputli colony but they were always told by DDA and politicians that there is not enough land in the city. Then why has all this land that these performers, artisans and workers developed over years, been sold off to private builders ?!

According to the Delhi Master Plans, DDA was to build about 23.6 lakh homes from 1962 to 2001. But only 11 lakh homes were constructed. The non fulfillment of the responsibilities of DDA in this city led thousands of families to build their own homes and provide basic services for their survival. Till today, DDA has not accounted for those missing 12.6 lakh homes and neither have they accounted for all the residential land that was reserved for building these houses.

Yet, in the last 13 years, about 320 ‘slums’ were evicted in Delhi and about 640 acres of land was forcefully taken away from families residing in them. Those families that were evicted were not fully resettled by DDA and those evicted families who were resettled were sent off to far off areas like Bawana, Holambi Kalan. Thousands of families were rendered ‘ineligible’ by authorities and their hard work and lives were destroyed. The former Lt. Governor of Delhi, after being pressurized by many evicted families, had to pass orders saying that there are faults in the surveys conducted by DDA and thus people’s own documents will be considered as proof for allotment under the resettlement policy.

Are all these rules and laws, orders and directives really being followed ? Are people willing to reside in flats being built by the DDA and the Rahejas ?

People of Kathputli colony have always had a dream to have their own homes on this land of kathputli colony that they have been living on for the past 50 years so that their families and livelihoods can be secure. If they are shifted into flats then how will all the wood workers, singers who practice their skills, idol makers, puppeteers who make 15 feet tall puppets, those of us who walk on 15 feet tall stilts, rickshaw pullers, weavers, tailors, painters, construction workers, rope makers, toy makers, magicians, sanitation workers, drummers who play dhols that weigh 50-60 kgs and many other workers and artisans who live here be able to sustain their work and livelihoods ? How will women who cook on traditional choolas be able to sustain this way of working ? It seems like their lives and all the history and traditions of our country that they have preserved over the years will cease to exist if this PPP project is implemented.

If this project to redevelop Kathputli colony is really aimed at creating brighter futures for the people of Kathputli colony, then this must be done with people's participation, transparency and collective understanding. The government and its agencies should work in a transparent way and be accountable to the people of this city. They should not work in collaboration with private builders to make them earn profits. The residents of Kathputli colony donot want to go to the transit camps built by Raheja Builders at Anand Parbat. All residents of Kathputli colony demand that any policy or plan made for their development should not be done by builders, but by the government along with the participation of people. They donot want flats in multi story buildings. The residents of Kathputli colony are demanding plots of land with ownership rights on this land of Kathputli colony which should be distributed equally among all families residing here. This would ensure that all families living at Kathputli colony can build their own homes and secure their work, their identity and their lives which are connected to this land of Kathputli Colony. The residents demand constructive consultation in the absense of coercive forces and the right to participate in their redevelopment.

Residents of Kathputli colony

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Υπογραφές ενάντια στην αστυνομική βία στην παροικία Kathputli

Δημοσίευσηαπό Κωσταντής Μιζάρας » 05 Μαρ 2014, 00:55

δεν ξεκινάμε κι εμείς ένα τέτοιο;;; θα χρειαστεί!!!
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Υπογραφές ενάντια στην αστυνομική βία στην παροικία Kathputli

Δημοσίευσηαπό Στάθης Μαρκόπουλος » 05 Μαρ 2014, 11:25

To θέμα είναι να ξεκινήσουμε την παροικία, όχι τις υπογραφές...
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