The Delhi High Court on Thursday observed that an irreparable loss has been caused to the students of Classes X and XII who, along with their families, were displaced from Delhi’s Kathputli Colony and moved to transit camps following a demolition drive.
A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar told the authorities that if a demolition drive is done like this at a crucial time when students’ exams are approaching in the future, the court would take stringent action.
Children relocation
“This is an irreparable loss to the students. There are several students in Classes X and XII who have been displaced,” the Bench said, adding that it cannot be denied that these children have to be relocated.
The Delhi government’s standing counsel Satyakam assured the Bench that these problems would be immediately looked into and said that it would provide transport to students to reach their schools.
The Bench directed the AAP government and its transport department to ensure availability of facilities, including transportation, to these children and asked it to take immediate steps on the matter.
Regarding the concern expressed by court observers Monika Arora and Rakesh Kumar for provision of an adequate and efficacious public transportation facility to the persons who have been moved to the flats in Narela to commute to Shadipur Depot so that they could reach to their work place and, the government’s counsel said it would start bus facility.
The counsel further said the persons, who have been moved from Shadipur area, can access to the public distribution system by changing their address through online facility.
The Bench also directed the Delhi Development Authority that the persons, who have to be allotted alternative flats, be given in Kathputli Colony only and they be informed about it by specific letters.
