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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?

Protestors expressing solidarity with evicted residents of Ejipura at a march on the 9th of February come up against hardhanded opposition from police yet again.

Spending time with the evicted community of Ejipura’s EWS quarters, observer Karthik Ranganathan poignantly captures their lives and voices today.

The youth in Bengaluru have shown that they do not come out only for protesting against corruption or gang-rape. This time, Ejipura’s slum dwellers, dumped in the streets by BBMP, are getting their support.

EWS residents staged a protest at BBMP demanding the entire land be used to build residences and not share with a shopping mall. 18 other organisations supported the protest.

Amid the continuing saga on never-to-see new housing for people at the Ejipura slum, nearly 6500 people are now suffering due to a water supply outage. The slum is adjacent to Koramangala 8th Block in Bengaluru.

A housing project on nearly 16 acres of BBMP-owned land for low-income residents in the Rajendranagar area of Ejipura-Koramangala has sparked off tensions amongst residents there, instead of bringing joy.