राजधानी में शनिवार को धरना प्रदर्शन में बड़ी संख्या में जुटेंगे मजदूर
मलिन बस्तियों में बेदखली की प्रक्रिया में भेदभाव, कानून का उलंघन: मज़दूर संगठन
देहरादून। शुक्रवार को माज़ूर संगठनों के प्रतिनिधि मंडल ने नगर निगम पहुंच उप नगर आयुक्त से मिल कर शहर की मलिन बस्तियों में हो रही बेदखली प्रक्रिया पर गंभीर सवाल उठाया। प्रतिनिधि मंडल ने आरोप लगाया कि जब न्यायलय के आदेश सारे अतिक्रमण और प्रदूषण के स्रोतों को ले कर है, और जब बड़े होटल, रिसोर्ट, सरकारी विभाग और निजी इमारत नदियों में बसे हैं, परन्तु साजिश के तहत सिर्फ मज़दूर बस्तियों को क्यों उजाड़े जाने का षडयंत्र रचा जा रहा जा है। उन्होंने कहा कि इसके अतिरिक्त जनता को घर हटाने के लिए सिर्फ सात दिन का नोटिस देना; उनको सुनवाई के लिए मौका न देना; और उनको तीस दिन हटने के लिए समय नहीं देना, उन्होंने इन सब कदमों को गैर क़ानूनी ठहराया। उन्होंने नगर निगम अधिकारियों से निवेदन किया कि जब नियमितीकरण एवं घर देना सरकार का क़ानूनी एवं संवैधानिक फ़र्ज़ है, तो उनको कोर्ट के सामने पूरी क़ानूनी तस्वीर को रखना चाहिए, जिसके अंतर्गत 2016 का मलिन बस्ती कानून के प्रावधान भी हैं और मज़दूरों का आश्रय का अधिकार भी।
उप नगरायुक्त ने कहा कि द्वारा दिए गए ज्ञापन पर विचार करेंगे और कोशिश करेंगे कि किसी के भी साथ किसी भी प्रकार का भेदभाव न हो।
प्रतिनिधि मंडल में AITUC के राज्य उपाध्यक्ष समर भंडारी एवं राज्य सचिव अशोक शर्मा; CITU के राज्य सचिव लेखराज; और चेतना आंदोलन के शंकर गोपाल शामिल रहे। ज्ञापन सलग्न।
ज्ञापन
To:
The Municipal Commissioner
Nagar Nigam, Dehradun
Dear Sir,
Recently, eviction proceedings have begun in various parts of Dehradun citing orders of the Hon’ble National Green Tribunal and the Hon’ble High Court. In connection with these proceedings we wish to bring to your notice certain points:
- Eviction notices are being issued that provide for only six or seven days of notice. These notices do not cite any provision of law under which they are being issued.
- The applicable law for eviction for occupation of public property is the Uttar Pradesh Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1972. Sections 4 and 5 of this law provide the procedure for eviction. We provide it here for illustration. A notice is to be issued under section 4(1) providing for responses from the affected party with a minimum of ten days’ time given to the respondent. Following this, under section 5(1) of the Act a reasoned order is to be passed by the Prescribed Authority. Under section 5(2) the respondent is then to be provided a minimum of thirty days before forcible eviction is undertaken.
- The notices being issued at present do not cite any provision of law, do not allow for a response, do not provide any specific reasoned order applicable to the party in question, and do not provie the minimum time periods specified in the law. Hence they appear to be invalid in law.
- From all available information these notices have only been issued to working class families living in slums. As far as information is available in public, no hotels, resorts, government establishments, wealthy households or other entities have been issued eviction notices, despite the widespread presence of such establishments on river banks and river beds. This selective approach appears to be in violation of the orders of the Hon’ble National Green Tribunal and the Hon’ble High Court, neither of which is limited to working class families in slums.
- The Hon’ble Green Tribunal has noted in its order that the failure of government departments to appear before it has deprived it of information. We wish to request that the municipality also inform the court of the provisions of the Uttarakhand Reforms, Regularisation, Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Prevention of Encroachment of the Slums located in Urban Local Bodies of the State Act, 2016, under which the state government is required to survey, regularise and/or rehabilitate all such slum areas. In light of the constitutional rights of working class citizens of the state, including the right to shelter under Article 21 of the Constitution, the state government may inform the court of the work it has done in this regard if any and request time for this process to be completed.
In light of the above, we request that 1) the invalid eviction notices that have been issued to families be withdrawn 2) action be taken on a war footing to implement the 2016 Act 3) the 2018 Act be extended until such time as such implementation of the 2016 Act is complete and 3) large encroachers be first targeted for eviction rather than rendering working class families homeless.
