Gurgaon: About 15 years ago, Indira Rajput, now 50, has arrived in Gurgaon with her husband and two children and opened a furniture store on the path in the sector 56, one of the few people at the time, he said.
As he passed, other people from the Gadiya Lohars community – a nomadic group from Rajasthan – kept arriving in the city and a small group of moldy stores to more than 50, selling various items from furniture to pots, linens to decorations, and glassware to equipment eat.
With Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) now plans to clean up “encroachment” on 25 hectares of land where Rajput has his shop and the cottage, the woman is afraid she will be immediately placed.
Earlier this month, HSVP officials have been looking for the spread of the police team in the area even when they prepare for a massive encouragement in the coming days to clean the shops “illegal” and slum clusters.
“We came to Gurgaon just because of ironing, where our community was known, no longer developing in Rajasthan.
We hope we will be able to make a living here and provide for our family.
We never imagined that we would turn out this way.
We might be Coming from other countries but this is our only home now.
We have no other place to go, “he said.
Rajput is not alone.
The owners of around 50 shops on the market, are popularly called the market ‘Banjara’, now facing the same fate.
Rahul Singh, who owns the linen train, came to Gurgaon about five years ago, has heard of relatives in the city who have seen some success as a shop owner on the market.
In the years he had spent Gurgaon, he was married and now has three children.
“It’s not as if our business is truly booming.
We sell items at low prices and that is what the market is known.
In bargaining, our advantages are very limited.
With a coronavirus pandemic and lock, everything becomes very difficult, almost reducing us to The presence of hands-on-mouth.
We barely saw customers for several months ago and a few months this year too.
Now people finally start back, there is a threat of demolition.
How can we survive? Should our children be starving? “He ask.
The market wore a quiet display on Wednesday morning.
While some people have discussed their belongings with tarpaulin sheets in the absence of buyers, Wisnu Singh, sitting in a chair at the decoration-cum-furniture shop waiting patiently for his first customer.
“I came to Gurgaon about 10 years ago and has been running this shop with my brothers since then.
The problem seems to just continue to accumulate every year.
Things have become difficult with online shopping and then come Covid-19.
Now, we might Lost our shops at all.
How much else can we take? “Wisnu said.
If the administration wants them to empty the area, Vishnu argues, they must provide shopkeepers elsewhere to stay and sell their merchandise.
“We are willing to take it,” he added.
But officials from HSVP said there were no plans to rehabilitate the current shop owner.
“We will remove wild residents and prepare plans to develop land,” said Jitender Kumar, an attentive officer – 2 HSVP (Gurgaon), said.
Land will be sold via e-auction, he added.
With a little expectations seen, some members of the community, however, have decided to return to Rajasthan.
Among them were Priyanka (30), who had run furniture stores on the market for the past four years.
“There’s no point in waiting until we don’t have a roof above our head at all.
I have two young daughters and can’t take it and sleep in the middle of the road.
We will package our luggage and leave this weekend.
My relatives will provide We took refuge for several days until I found out another solution.
I don’t like to find help, but I no longer have a choice, “he added.
The threat of demolition seems big at the Banjara market but the shop owner still puts: ‘There is no other place to go’
