By Deepak Lavania / Times of India
AGRA: Residents of demolished houses in Nai Basti area near Shri Krishna Janmasthan temple, Mathura are selling the debris to make ends meet. Imran sold 6,000 bricks of his house at Rs 2 per piece on Thursday. He urgently needed money for medical treatment of his 8-year-old daughter.
Imran, his wife and three children have been living on the roadside after their house, along with 134 others marked “illegal encroachment on government land”, was recently reduced to rubble by bulldozers. “It is better to sell them (house rubble) and get some money before authorities take that too. We lost our houses and need money to survive. Our children are falling ill after living in the open for days. But, selling the debris doesn’t mean we’re going to leave. It’s our land and we have nowhere else to go,” said Farooq Miyan, another resident.
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