Medha Patkar at Nagpur Chawl Airport road
Pune, Oct 6: Criticising the policy of acquiring agricultural and slum lands for setting up Special Economic Zones (SEZs), social activist Medha Patkar today alleged that the governments at the Centre and state are seeking development at the cost of farmers and poor.
"What development can be envisioned by dispossessing some people against their will from a particular place?" she asked at a meeting here organised by Nagpur Chawl Vikas Kriti Samiti, near Yerawada Central Jail.
The Nagpur Chawl, comprising 2,000 houses, is proposed to be demolished for the construction of multi-storeyed buildings by the Slum Development Rehabilitation Authority.
Nagpur Chawl is no more a slum but has developed into a colony, Patkar said, seeking to know the real reason behind the decision of the authorities to demolish it.
"The governments both at the Centre and state are seeking development at the cost of the farmers and poor. Are the SEZs and multi-storeyed buildings only the yardstick to measure development?" she asked.
Warning that "the dispossessed would not sit quiet and launch a relentless campaign to protect their rights," Patkar said it appears the real motive behind the decision to demolish the Nagpur Chawl at Yerawada was commercial.
"The colony, if turned into a cluster of multi-storied buildings, would be commercially viable as it is located near Pune International Airport", she added.
--- PTI
"What development can be envisioned by dispossessing some people against their will from a particular place?" she asked at a meeting here organised by Nagpur Chawl Vikas Kriti Samiti, near Yerawada Central Jail.
The Nagpur Chawl, comprising 2,000 houses, is proposed to be demolished for the construction of multi-storeyed buildings by the Slum Development Rehabilitation Authority.
Nagpur Chawl is no more a slum but has developed into a colony, Patkar said, seeking to know the real reason behind the decision of the authorities to demolish it.
"The governments both at the Centre and state are seeking development at the cost of the farmers and poor. Are the SEZs and multi-storeyed buildings only the yardstick to measure development?" she asked.
Warning that "the dispossessed would not sit quiet and launch a relentless campaign to protect their rights," Patkar said it appears the real motive behind the decision to demolish the Nagpur Chawl at Yerawada was commercial.
"The colony, if turned into a cluster of multi-storied buildings, would be commercially viable as it is located near Pune International Airport", she added.
--- PTI
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