Yamuna: Fair to evict farmers from floodplains?

Despite National Green Tribunal’s strict guidelines prohibiting construction on the Yamuna floodplain, the Delhi Development Authority has been increasingly concretising several areas adjacent to the river, as reported previously by Newslaundry. 

Under project ‘Asita West’, the DDA is now planning to construct a park on the Yamuna floodplains at Rajghat. The park will come up at a place where farmers would grow all kinds of crops not very long ago. 

Over the years, several farmers were evicted from the floodplains to make way for projects like the upcoming park. Many of them even had their houses razed to the ground.

But how fair is this pursuit of development and beautification to the people who toiled to produce food for the national capital?

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