Evicted

Every time when there is a road or railway line or a dam or an airport

An industrial area development

The authorities show the future prospects to the developers

Luring them to invest big sums of money

In regenerating the area into un-believable levels

Nevertheless, there is a small group of people

Who are forced to sacrifice for the cause of thousands!

Authorities set aside a sum to compensate them

Some times, they provide alternate land

But, uprooting the masses from their hopes and past

It’s never an easy task

It’s never done in a fair fashion either

Authorities can just enact ordinance or law

Then send notices in advance

Telling the people to surrender their possessed lands

For the development of the area

Giving fake hopes of jobs and other amenities

Some people might have their dream home

Built with all their lifelong savings

With no choice, but to give it up

Take the compensation and go for finding a place to survive

There are large tracts of barren lands available

But when industrialists wish for a prime land

Authorities make sure that they get it

By the means of laws and sweet offers

Many a time I wonder

How much land they need for starting a factory?

Why they need land amidst populated locality?

When they need mere little area for buildings

They demand huge tracts of lands, which has potential

In the name of future expansions

In the name of industrial development

Authorities lease those lands for neglible price

Or sell to the investors at nominal rates

May be they get commissions for their acts

Many a time, you will find huge tracts of unused lands

Later being sold by the developers with huge profits

Or building un necessary or luxurious projects

That never was there in the original plans

So, is it fooling the people who sacrifice?

But what about the poor people

Who might be earning from farming or

Some other jobs in their own land

Does anyone care about the future of those people?

When the development doesn’t involve

The welfare of the ones who contribute land

It is not development, but mere clouding of tears of despair

Many a time the ones who once lived in towns and cities

Aside the roads and prime financial areas

They had to move away from those areas

To the outskirts, taking their allotted compensations

With a task to recultivate their lifestyle

Without proper amenities

Many a time people get in-hospitable lands

To build homes or to set up farm lands

Some times, they get shabbily built apartments

In exchange for their houses or land holdings

To meet the deadlines, authorities comes up with

Police and other forces with bulldozers to evict the people

Crushing the buildings and throwing away the belongings

It’s nothing but terrorizing the poor with iron fist

When someone refuses to move away from the land

Where they took birth and lived a life time

Asking where we will go and what we will do!

The scenes of kids and elders crying

With the state of helplessness

For these people, many a time politicians

Doesn’t find it useful to help when they suffer

Its fate to be alienated in their own place

All but for the welfare of a majority

One question remains

Is it right to forcefully take the lands of disadvantaged people

When authorities identify location for regeneration

Will they ever identify a location owned by VIP’S?

They won’t.

Instead, they will choose the land where poor people are there

Evicted are those, who don’t have clout among authorities

To have immunity from land acquisitions