UP: Musahar Dalit Community Pressured To Vacate, Shift Houses; Civic Body Claims Illegal Inhabitation
Musahars, a sub-caste of the Dalit community in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi, were forced to vacate and shift to another location, by the local administration, for building a residential school in the area. More than a dozen families residing in the Karsada village have alleged that the administration was pressuring them to vacate their places to build the Atal residential school for the children of daily wage labourers. Neary 13 families of the community have been living in the shanties on the outskirts of the village for more than 16 years. According to the Hindustan Times report, six houses have been demolished, and the civic body removed power connections on Friday, October 29.
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said most people staying illegally occupied about one acre of handloom department land. The families had no ownership records upon asking. Instead, some of them were showing land documents of other people, Sharma added. Besides, the families had also captured the 11 acres of the area meant for PWD work. The community members beat up the PWD workers earlier, he added. He said the 13 families had been allotted a lease on the barren land nearby, and 3-4 had already shifted. The administration has also provided vehicles for convenience, he added.
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said most people staying illegally occupied about one acre of handloom department land. The families had no ownership records upon asking. Instead, some of them were showing land documents of other people, Sharma added. Besides, the families had also captured the 11 acres of the area meant for PWD work. The community members beat up the PWD workers earlier, he added. He said the 13 families had been allotted a lease on the barren land nearby, and 3-4 had already shifted. The administration has also provided vehicles for convenience, he added.
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