“These slum-residents in Chandigarh moved to Government housing. Here’s how it impacted their lives”, Swarajyamag, May 8 ,2023:
“Rekha moved to Chandigarh city from her village in Jaunpur after getting married to live with her husband and in-laws. Her husband and his family are migrant labourers who moved to the city from rural Uttar Pradesh, a decade ago, in search for daily wage work opportunities.
They have since lived in different informal settlements in the city — continuously under pressure of evictions, unstable arrangements and substandard living amenities. On moving to the city, Rekha also stayed in the tin-shed colony — a settlement in Sector-52 of Chandigarh.
This, however, was the last such settlement that her family had to stay in before they were provided a formal rental house by the government in 2021…..”
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