The Golibar Resistance and Why is Medha Patkar on Indefinite Fast ?

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OUR DEMANDS

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The struggle to save Golibar has been going on since 2009, previous attempts to initiate corrective action from the government’s side have met with no success. Along with Medhatai, 10,000 strong rally of from different slums in Mumbai had even marched to Azad Maidan on April 5^th to raise the issue of displacement, corruption and deprivation of masses in the name of development by the builder, politicians and bureaucrats lobyy. We have exposed case by case Adarsh Housing Scam and the Shivalik builders naked loot for long. Despite this, on May 19^th the police and Shivalik Builders goons entered Ganesh Krupa Soicety, Golibar community with impunity and razed it to the ground with bulldozers. An indefinite fast is now the only alternative left. These are the various demands related to the legal and human rights of the urban poor and unauthorised slumdwellers facing evictions :

Right to Housing

• Stop all demolitions IMMEDIATELY

• Constitute an Independent Enquiry Committee with our nominees to investigate SRA projects where conflict and protest has arisen between the people and authorities.

• Revoke 3k clause and thus cancel the agreements between builders and SRA for the 6 projects where 3k has been applied, including Shivalik – a part of 2G spectrum scam.

• Review SRA scheme itself and modify it to allow Self-development as an option.

• Implement Rajiv Aawas Yojna across the slums in Mumbai, which promises a house to everyone without one, irrespective of a cut off date through the model of self development.

• Implement Slum Act and declare unauthorised colonies as ‘Slums‘ to carry on slum improvement with basic amenities.

• After revoking Urban Land Ceiling Act, 30,000 Acres land should have become available, which can still be acquired by State Government and distributed amongst urban poor and middle class cooperative societies for housing.

• No development plan should be without the free prior consent of the Basti Sabha. Bring amendments or a new legislation to incorporate this provision in the Nagar Raj Act.

  Services to Urban Poor

• Revoke all cut off dates in any existing policy or act for supply of water, right to water is a fundamental right of everyone.

• Sanitation, electricity, and roads should be made available to all BPL families at a priority basis.

• Have a meeting with the Secretary, Minister, Controller and the Right to Food State Adviser to implement the universal PDS with efficiency, and without corruption.