Vulnerabilities of relocated women, a case of resettlement in Bawana JJ Colony, Delhi

Abstract

‘Cities’ which gives the portrait of multi-storied buildings, world class infrastructure, exploding markets, pollution, and not only that but long hour traffic jams, crowding of people, unemployment, poverty, growing of slums, crimes, shortage of basic amenities and so on. On one hand we have policy-makers, city planners, architectures who call cities as machines of growth which suffice with the indicator of development, and on the other hand we have voiceless poor who make city at the cost of exploitation. This study was attempted to explore the life of the displaced women who were evicted from Yamuna Pushta and were tried to relocate and resettled in Bawana. The question which continually strike during this whole journey was about settling and resettling the life of voiceless. The people who were evicted, most were left to fend for themselves with no alternatives and choices. This paper has tried to capture and document the experiences, the pain, unheard voices of poor women who had faced this process of exclusion throughout life.