Savda Ghevra

Located in north-west Delhi across 250 acres, Savda Ghevra is a large resettlement colony. From 2006 onwards, people have been allocated plots after the forced evictions from their homes throughout the city. Residents interviewed in this study came after forced evictions in Nangal Dairy, Nangla Manchi, Laxminagar, Raghubir Nagar, and Nizammudin, among others. There are also some from Mongolpuri and Jwalapuri who bought unconstructed or semi-constructed plots here. Stretching from blocks A to O, it has as many as 9000 plots ranging from sizes of 12 gaz and 18 gaz. When this study was conducted in 2018, many plots still remained unoccupied, and some blocks not even been cut into plots. Although planned as a ‘site and services’ resettlement colony, state provided services only came incrementally, with the state having failed to install sewer lines and individual water connections even twelve years since 2006.