BHUBANESWAR: “Stop slum dwellers eviction drive and implement development
projects and Government schemes effectively to help the urban poor,” said
Mumbai based organisation Yuva’s director Raju Bishi attending a two-day long State-level
conference on Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) and Social Security of Slum-dwellers organised
by the Odisha Basti Sangharsha Samiti (OBSS) here on Tuesday.
Bishi said the Central Government
drafted bill the Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2011 has many defects
like induction of many landless and homeless urban poor who live in roadside. The
definition of ‘landless’ in the bill is not clear and correct, he added.
Attending the conference, Cuttack
Basti Unnayan Mahasangh president Subash Singh said about the struggle of the
slum dwellers and vendors to get their rights. Many a times, the police and
local administration demolish the slums without offering proper settlement
which is illegal, he said.
Among others, State Communist
Party of India leader Narayan Reddy, OBSS president Pratap Sahu, Street
Vendors’ Association general secretary Dhirendra Swain, Sharmila Patnaik, Suraj
Lal Samal, Kirtan Nayak, Sudam Charan Swain and slum leaders from 14 districts
were present.
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