In Bawana
These Yamuna Pushta residents began their ordeal of surviving a merciless summer, on barren plots of land in Bawana and in Holambi Kalan, with no electricity, no proper water supply, no sanitation, no medical assistance, and worst of all, no scope of livelihood.
"I was told, that if I wanted everything swiftly and if I wanted land to build my home, I would have to pay a bribe of additional five thousand rupees. That meant, I would have to give them nearly thirteen thousand rupees. You tell me sir, for a man who earns a daily wage..." Read more...
"My friends are still here. If we get a parchi, then we go or else we will manage something here. My parents are here also. When it rains I come and sleep in the Masjid. They have broken my home." Read more...
"Over here everybody is very worried and disturbed. It rained and this whole place became flooded. We all are going through lots of hardship. This place stinks a lot and also at night, mosquitoes really harass us. There is no place to go to study too." Read more...
"Children, old people, those sick and tired women and all of us, had no option but to sit in the rain and watch all our possessions get destroyed and our children fall ill." Read more...