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The Uttarakhand High Court last month ordered the Railway and local authorities to demolish the encroachment on railway land in the Banbhoolpura area of #Haldwani, The SC on Jan 5 stayed the order of HC. Media setting their agenda accordingly.(1/19)
A thread #HaldwaniEncroachment

Sharjeel Usmani tweeted, Out of the entire 90 km stretch - from Bareilly station to Kathgodam - this is only 2.1 km area (the Muslim settlement) that railway is claiming is theirs. But ,a satellite map shows, how the railway land was encroached over a period of time.(2/19)

The municipality of Haldwani has a population of 156,060 people.Hinduism 57.84%, Islam 41.89%,Sikhism 2.19%, Christianity 0.89%
Others 0.2%.Question is how 1385 house there ,became 4000 in just 7 years,even after expansion news just to grab compensation land/money from rail(3/19)

Sherdil,a resident of Haldwani,whose forefathers were residents of a village in Sitapur,Uttar Pradesh.Occupied railway land and settled there,now they are claiming that the land is theirs.They were not born homeless & most of them have their own house in their native place.(4/19)

Hansraj Meena's misleading tweet claimed ,PM promised every Indian a permanent house by 2022 , then how these poor people remain oblivious and homeless.Fact is Modi did not promise a house to every Indian but a house to every homeless family ,not secondary house near City .(5/19)

People come from rural areas near city with job expectations and better lifestyle.But when they do not get job to maintain, they start doing anti-social or illegal activities, and that area becomes a den of criminals. Highlighting some criminal activities from Haldwani.(6/19)

Gradually things like theft, drug smuggling, gang war, violence etc become common. Those people could have stick to their village and farming or other traditional occupations. The greed of living near city now become expectation of having compensation for occupied land (7/19)

In 1998,the government had approved the construction of a bridge on Gola river flowing in Haldwani & close to the railway station.The bridge was completed in 2004.Four years later,bridge collapsed.
In 2012,Since the bridge was built on railway land,the railway department(8/19)

was made a party in the case on the directions of the court.
the high court in 2016 issued orders to the state government to clear out the encroachment on 29 acres of railway land.
Why it is necessary to remove encroachments from railway land,there are serious consequences.(9/19)

So called journalists, social worker and leaders who do appeasement politics all are crying after the order from UK high court to vacate encroached railway land, they should look into past.(10/19)

There are many cases came into light where railway took action against thousands of encroachments on their land and religion never mentioned or taken consideration.(11/19)
For example -

All major cities in India have turned into slums, the Supreme Court said in December 2021 while allowing the Railways to remove unauthorised settlements from its land in Gujarat.(12/19)

2,546 huts were demolished between Udhna and Surat railway stations by Western railway in Jan 2022. There was no outrage, no protest and no candle march.(13/19)

The Ranchi railway division of South Eastern Railways in Nov 2022 razed 50 buildings, consisting of homes, shops and a salon, which were built illegally on its encroached land in the Birsa Chowk area of the city.(14/19)

Indian Railways had sent a notice to Lord Hanuman stating that a temple has been encroached upon in Dhanbad city of Jharkhand. In the notice, Lord Hanuman was asked to remove the temple and hand over the vacant land to the Railway Section Engineer within 10 days.(15/19)

Railway authorities took steps to remove encroachment from Tinplate locality in Jharkhand's Tatanagar in 2020.Railway North Central zone had issued notices to a mazar of Bhure Shah Baba and a Chamunda Devi temple in Agra in Uttar Pradesh in April 2022.(16/19)

Occupants were asked to vacate encroached railway land in Delhi within 3 months in September 2020.People in Vishakhapatnam were forced to vacate encroached land in 2018, even after some of them were dying due to harsh weather, the poverty burdened.(17/19)

Story of #Haldwani is , a decade long Indian disease of living beside train line just to get better access of city is epicenter of the problem. Ruling party of Haldwani(closely contested) is Congress , who don't want to loose minority vote expense of development and (18/19)

BJP led Uttarakhand Govt can hit 2 birds (decrease minority vote & development to show for) by 1 stone(encroachment).But valid question is,
Why should Govt be responsible for relocation?
Answer to that is,because Govt failed to identify & remove unlawful building long ago(19/19)