The residents being evicted from Ejipura EWS quarters are finding it tough to find affordable houses. Some have borrowed money for the rental advance, and volunteer groups are trying to help with funds.
Hundreds of tin-shed slum homes in Ejipura near Koramangala were razed down in two days. Shattered residents have been promised houses 15 km way, though that project itself is yet to start.
New Years may come and go, but for Aisha and her lot in Ejipura’s slum near Koramangala in south Bangalore, getting water is an ordeal each day. In a world where jobs matter for everything, she had to leave hers.
Eight years after the infamous EWS quarters collapse at Ejipura, the original residents are now faced with the prospect that encroachers will get compensatory flats, and not them.
