Overview

• A Special Task Force wielding excavators and heavy security units commenced the second demolition drive this month targeting illegal structures along the Barapullah drain in South Delhi.
• State officials say encroachments have narrowed the drain and hindered desilting efforts, posing flooding risks to nearby neighborhoods.
• Across Ashok Vihar and Wazirpur this month, authorities have cleared over 500 illegal dwellings, including 308 in Jailorwala Bagh.
• The DDA reports that 1,078 eligible families have been resettled in subsidized one-bedroom flats at Swabhiman Apartments and that 567 households were deemed ineligible for relocation under the urban shelter policy.
• Opposition figures led by Arvind Kejriwal and Saurabh Bharadwaj have accused the BJP of neglecting adequate rehabilitation while displaced residents allege forced evictions without proper notice.