Ejipura

Families were evicted from the housing quarters with a promise of new homes in the same place. Ever since, footpath has become their dwelling. What has the life been like, for the evicted?

Public-private partnership does not allow land transfer to developers, but the BBMP has promised a sale in the MoU signed, and the developer is banking on it. Where will this lead to?

It is almost a year since the EWS Quarters slum was demolished and the residents ruthlessly thrown away from their homes. In spite of various protests and struggles against this inhuman slum demolition by slum

Real solution to the malnutrition problem lies in incentivizing local production of heavily imported pulses which are today almost four times the price they were about five years ago. The whole food security angle needs to be considered through a lens beyond subsidized rice.

Who are migrating into Bangalore, and why? What is so special in Bangalore that brings them in? What are the problems in the areas they come from? These questions are never asked while drafting budget.

While waste management and rejuvenation of lakes have found space in the budget, announcement of Commuter railways has cheered many. Formation of Ground Water directorate and Indian Institute of Public Health are the other things to look forward to.

Industry is disappointed as there is no large investment in neither power nor infrastructure. Chief Minister has explained the projects which are in execution. We need big ideas, large solutions, massive investment and a big vision.

The book by PUCL analyses the entire eviction episode, with the government documents, and explains how a Public Private Partnership can be manipulated. Meanwhile the Lokayukta probe on evictions has headed nowhere, because of ‘lack of records.’

BBMP officials seem to have a penchant for losing files. Citizen Matters’ copy of a recent ‘missing’ file is shared here.

A concerned group of children from Indiranagar wanted to do something for their EWS counterparts, which resulted in the summer camp.

Even as the controversy about the forced eviction of residents of the EWS quarters in Ejipura is yet to die down, another 97 families find themselves in danger of being displaced because of the project.

The Slum Board quarters at Kudlu, off Sarjapura Road have more than a 1000 flats, mostly vacant, even as the families evicted from Ejipura who landed there, struggle to find houses. What are the Slum Board’s plans for them, then?