Sealing drive at Kalkaji Extension
Sealing drive is under way at the Kalkaji Extension, the DDA’s Transit Camp Colony, adjacent to Govindpuri.
The colony has been simmering for the past fortnight after the residents were intimated of a court order to the DDA to evict them.
Earlier, the High Court stayed the eviction of nearly 1,100 families from a housing colony for displaced slum residents in Kalkaji Extension.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Sanjiv Khanna ordered the stay and posted the matter for further hearing to August 22.
According to DDA records, the houses, numbering 1,600, were allotted to displaced slum dwellers in 1985 after demolitions in different parts of the Capital.
DDA officials say not less than 1,100 of the plots are now owned by “non-allottees” or persons not eligible for displaced slum residents’ remunerations.
The sealing drive has now begun here with residents staging a firm protest against the action.
The residents, however, question why so many persons were allowed to buy the plots over the years if this was not legal.
Refuting allegations of negligence, DDA claim the original allottees were to blame for selling off the plots without informing the Authority.