{"id":179039,"date":"2025-07-14T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=179039"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:23:12","slug":"new-demolition-notices-cause-panic-in-delhis-okhla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/07\/14\/new-demolition-notices-cause-panic-in-delhis-okhla.html","title":{"rendered":"New demolition notices cause panic in Delhi&#8217;s Okhla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-179040\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/07\/1000261428-360x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: A fresh wave of fear has spread across the Batla House area in Okhla after the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) pasted new notices ordering the removal of thousands of slums near the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, residents, many of whom have been living in these settlements for over two decades, now face the threat of being left homeless within just a few days.<\/p>\n<p>The notices, which appeared over the weekend, direct all occupants to vacate their homes by 17 July. If they fail to do so, a demolition drive is scheduled to begin on July 18 and continue on July 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been living here for 21 years. I collect garbage to feed my children. If they destroy our homes, where will we go?\u201d asked Abdul, a resident of the slum cluster, holding the notice in his hand. His voice trembled with worry. \u201cWe are poor, but we are not criminals. Don\u2019t treat us like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most residents said they had no prior information about any plan to remove them. \u201cNo one came to speak to us before this. One day, they just pasted these notices. That too on a Sunday when government offices are closed,\u201d said Sabira, a widow and mother of four. \u201cAre we not citizens of this country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She pointed to the tin-roofed shanty she called home. \u201cThis may be small, but it is everything we have. If they destroy it, we will sleep on the road.\u201d KMS\u20149A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A fresh wave of fear has spread across the Batla House area in Okhla after the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) pasted new notices ordering the removal of thousands of slums near the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. According to Kashmir Media Service, residents, many of whom have been living in these settlements for over two decades, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":179040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}