New Delhi: Throughout Ma Anandmayee who are busy near the Kalkaji, it will be difficult to miss TPA Okhla – Humong trash mound on the outskirts of the South Delhi district.
Turn left past the hotel, hospital, and expensive car outlets, and the new scene is open in front of you, the luxury is replaced by a shabby path, crowded with flats of multitices and maze of residence.
“Welcome to the village of Tehkhand” announced a giant blue board Delhi development authority.
However, no one is welcomed, about Tehkhand village.
Hunity, which is claimed to be more than 100 years old, has the proximity of Okhla Sanitary TPA, DTC Depot, Railway yard and dry port container – everything is considered important to keep the city running.
But in creating this important infrastructure, the villagers Ruja has exchanged their land for garbage.
Some generations of chands are called Valmiki Mohalla from Tehkhand Home.
Today, Ramesh Chand, 65, a retired train employee, lamented the fate of the village dominated by Gujar.
“While our land was acquired by the government at a very cheap price in the 1960s and 70s, there was no planning carried out to develop the village,” he murmured.
“Instead of direct road connectivity, we must take a detour to reach the house.
Deferred sanitation, drains uncovered and encroachment has made life impossible.” With this area, it is located near the Aravali region, after turning into a slum concrete, the villagers understand that the new Master Plan Delhi 2041 was recently formulated with the return of their developmental development.
Pandit Om Prakash, the Head of the Imam in the Old Mandir Shiv, said that he had lived in the village for 30 years and could spend hours talking about the problem.
“We don’t even have a garden where parents can sit or children.
When the wind direction changes, he brings a sickening smell from Khatta (TPA) into our house,” he said.
Tehkhand was built around Mohallas Mavi, Alla and Churiya with the presence of the dominant Gujjar and scattered Jatav, Valmiki, Pandit and Nai.
With a rare room, renting rooms at 4-5 floors of their matchboxes is the main source of income for many people.
The migrant population of up-bihar works in the Okhla Phase 1 industrial area nearby and 20-30% of the local population in government work.
TII previously highlighted how the area near the waste disposal, yellow polluted water, while ground water was contaminated by Leaches from Mount Garbage.
The villagers also complained that they had no room to park the vehicle.
Mahendra Pal, 41, Mavi Mohalla said they were not permitted to park on an industrial area empty line.
“We face constant congestion and jam,” he said.
Some villagers feel the overall condition of Tehkhand has become “better after the selection of local politicians to the Delhi assembly”.
Bhupender Kumar is one of them, happy with relative improvement even if some segments still face water misery.
“There is only one community center for a population of 50,000,” however, he shows.
“So, there is no place if there are a number of marriages scheduled for lucky days.” He also hopes that the empty land around the village is developed into a green belt and garden.
Lakhmi Pradhan, a 76-year-old village population retired as a locomotive inspector in the Northern Railway, said that the villagers had simplified their land to the government in the 1960s for interest rates only by Rs 330 per Bigha and did not get compensation.
“Our gram Sabha’s land extends to Govindpuri.
It was all obtained.
But in terms of development, what have we received? Only city waste in the landfill.” The new engineering landfill now appears at 32 hectares near Tehkhand.
It is careful news for villagers.