Hyderabad: It was a lull after the storm that changed the lives of many for better or for the worse on Sunday, as many families left their homes to find a new one in the 2BHK houses built for them by the state government. The evictees are people who had to part with their houses lying on the Musi river bed in Moosa Nagar and Shankar Nagar.
Tahera Bibi was among the two families which were yet to relocate, as she had just come back from Bhubaneshwar after learning about the eviction. Her husband, who had suffered a heart stroke and had recovered recently, fell ill after learning about the developments back home. Leaving her daughter with him at the hospital in Bhubaneshwar, Tahera had to rush to Hyderabad by borrowing money and booking a flight for Rs 8,000 to save whatever they had.
Though it was feared that after the eviction demolitions would take place on Sunday, for some reason that plan was halted for the time being. At the 2bhk housing complex at Pilligudiselu in Chanchalguda, the evictees were still trying to come to terms with the reality, as they were cleaning their houses and arranging their luggage and furniture.
Among them was Mohd Yousuf, a father of three school-going daughters, who had just arrived from Shankar Nagar. When asked how he found the new home, he said that it was definitely not like what used to be his home in 50 square foot area.
Though the 2bhk apartment was of the same area, he believes that he could had built another floor on his old house had he been allowed to stay there, just as a security for his daughters when they grow up to get married.
He was allotted flat number 511 in the allotment letter. Some family members of the original Pilligudiselu slum dwellers who were already living in the 2BHK complex, and who were waiting for the rest of their family members to get the flats allotted, protested at the 2bhk housing complex on September 28 after the evictees from Moosa Nagar and Shankar Nagar started arriving to occupy their flats.
The police resorted to mild lathi-charge to disperse the protesters, and ensured that all the evictees occupied their flats. Yousuf was asked to first occupy whichever flat was vacant, and he was able to settle down in flat number 522. Even on Sunday, there was heavy police presence in the apartment complex, to prevent any untoward incident from affecting the resettlement of the evictees.
Chand Bi, a mother of three sons, got one flat allotted to her, and another for her elder son. The two younger sons, along with their wives had no option but to temporarily live with her. Shama, the wife of her second son, has five daughters and a son.
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