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| Army serves eviction notice |
| Ironically the Army now wants back what it once had gave to those in need too.
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| INDIA
, 26-December-2007
0:25:38 AM |
| The Army has slapped eviction notice to war widows and ex-army men so that they can redistribute to others in need of Army help.
Ironically the Army now wants back what it once had gave to those in need too.
These days 52-year-old Shakuntala is at her wit's end, her husband, a jawan had died in the 1971 Indo-Pak war. She was allotted a shop in the Delhi cantonment area as compensation and since then she's been running an STD booth there but may have to soon vacate it.
She's among the 40 people who've been served eviction notices in the first such move by the Army.
Shakuntala fails to understand why. ''This is my only means to sustenance, without this ot will become difficult,'' she said.
For the last seven years Lilawati has been running a fruit shop in the space given by the Army. She says the monthly pension of Rs 2500 is too little to keep the home and hearth going.
An ex-serviceman's widow, Lilawati said, ''We won't be able to afford even two square meals a day if we lose this shop.''
Amarjeet Singh retired from the Air Force as Junior Warrant Officer in 1985 and having put in all his life's savings in setting up his shop, he now feels cheated.
''They didn't tell us anything like that earlier. We were just told that the license would be renewed on an annual basis. Now they're telling us to vacate the shops within a month. Where will we go? Even a junk dealer will not buy our goods,'' Amarjeet complained.
That sums up the angst and despair of those who've been told that they'll have to part with the shops they've all along called their own.
Many of them have petitioned to the Delhi High Court. But the Army says its decision is justified.
Jyoti Singh, Counsel for the Army said, ''Because we've received so many applications from disabled soldiers and war widows in the recent past, they also want to be rehabilitated. This way with limited infrastructure we'll be able to rotate these shops amongst everybody and make a balance.''
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