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Ajab Gajab News: More than 2000 families live in slums at a railway station in New Delhi. Here people occupy the rooms of railway officials and run shops. There is never cleanliness here and looting also happens in broad daylight.
New Delhi : Azadpur railway station of the country’s capital Delhi is one such station. After reaching there you will not understand whether you have come to a railway station or a slum. Because here shops are running in the rooms of railway officials. People have broken the doors and set up shops inside it. Clothes are drying all around the railway station. People will be seen sleeping at the railway station itself. Not only this, houses of more than 2000 families will be seen right next to the tracks. Children play on the track. People sit on the tracks itself. There are heaps of garbage and flowing drains all around here.
This will be the only such railway station not only in the country but in the world. Where you will get such a view. You will also be shocked to see this kind of encroachment on government land of Railways. You will be surprised to know whether people are afraid to go here even during the night and day. Here, looting takes place at knifepoint in broad daylight. Girls get kidnapped. Not only this, the route to Azadpur Railway Station also passes through a house. The train schedule for the last 50 years is written here. It is written like that. Till date no one has come to update it.
People said – the land belongs to the railway, but the house is ours
Gopal, who has been living here for the last 50 years, talked to the team of Local 18. He told that this land belongs to the Railways. There is nothing to hide in this, but now more than 2000 families live here. He told that first a family had come and settled here. He was not removed. Because railway officials or no one comes here. After one family, another family came and started living. After the second family, the third family came and within no time, in the last 50-60 years, an entire colony has settled here.
People have even opened shops inside the rooms of railway officials. Despite this, railway officials have not said anything till date. People told that now it is their compulsion to live here. If the government gives us houses somewhere else, we will go, but until we get houses. Till then we need something to hide our heads. This land may belong to the Railways, but the house is built with our hard-earned money, which we will not leave.
Looting happens here in broad daylight
Shanti Devi, who lives here, told that she has been living here for the last 60 years. The land belongs to the Railways, but the house is of her own construction, which she will not leave. There is no cleanliness here. Diseases are widespread. Earlier there was no robbery or robbery here, but now this area is not completely safe. Some such people have also come and settled nearby. Who snatch people’s mobile phones in broad daylight. They rob at knifepoint.
Another resident Arnav told that he has been living here for the last 17 years. Railway officials never came here nor was anyone removed. He said that the land belongs to the Railways, but the house is ours, which we have built with our own money. In such a situation, now no one can get this railway station vacated.
