The Delhi government has expressed concern over the rehabilitation of thousands of poor affected due to the demolition in Tughlakabad area of south Delhi by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and demanded that an alternative arrangement or rehabilitation plan put in place before demolition.
Delhi Urban Development Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj also demanded that the Centre (ASI and the DDA) should provide land to the Delhi government, so that the Delhi Government can prepare a rehabilitation plan and make alternative arrangements for the living of these innocent people.
Bharadwaj said that the Delhi government will move an application in the Supreme Court with a plea that action should be taken against officials involved in allowing encroachment.
“The Delhi government will say the same thing before the Supreme Court that it is easy for the central government to destroy the houses of these people, but the task of rehabilitating them is huge.
We want that instead of taking action against innocent people, action should be taken against those officials, whose negligence led to the encroachment of these lands and people who earned crores of rupees”.
“Innocent people have built houses here by buying land without knowing it. Today, by destroying their houses, a big crisis is being created for Delhi and the people of Delhi.
The central government should have sympathy towards the poor people. Bhardwaj said that a major crisis looming large for the national Capital and the people of Delhi who facing removal of their residential structures by ASI.