Over the years, around 150 acres of railways land worth several thousand crores has been encroached upon in the national capital.It is only due to the failure of the railway authorities to take timely action against the encroachers in the city that has finally given birth to over 1,000 such dwelling units in Shakur basti alone. For the political support, residents in these slum clusters vote en mass in favour of these parties in the elections. Any slum cluster within the railway safety zone is a serious threat to safe and secure movement of rail traffic along with the safety of residents in the clusters,” added a senior railway official of Delhi Division. Finally, two companies of the CRPF, 72 personnel from the Delhi police, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) and 55 RPF staff were deployed to raise 1,200 units during its six-hour operation from 12 noon to 6 pm. The meeting deliberated upon the protection that the Delhi police would be providing to the officials while executing the drive.According to the railways record, in eight clusters around wholesale clear plastic plates 16,000 dwelling units exist in northwest Delhi and Shakur Basti is one of them. Earlier, these slums used to be a votebank of the Congress party and then shifted loyalty to the AAP in the last two Assembly elections in the city.The demolition of a slum cluster in Shakur Basti, in which a six-month-old girl lost her life, has once again raised the contentious issue of rampant encroachments on railway land across the national
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