Evicted slum dwellers spend a year homeless

  • 19/06/2005

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)

Dozens of women and men wait patiently outside the modest office of Arz (Anya Rahit Zindagi) in the Baina slum of Goa. Arz, the pro-active NGO is one of the few channels working to help the hundreds displaced by the slum demolitions here last year wade through the bureaucratic red-tape for a slot in the Goa government's rehabilitation scheme. "A year has gone by, and not even temporary shelter has been provided by the government,' Arz director Arunendra Pandey points out.