{"id":221661,"date":"2023-01-09T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221661"},"modified":"2023-01-09T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T14:00:28","slug":"a-timely-halt-sc-must-lay-down-rehabilitation-norms-for-eviction-from-public-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-timely-halt-sc-must-lay-down-rehabilitation-norms-for-eviction-from-public-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"A timely halt &#8211; SC must lay down rehabilitation norms for eviction from public spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cA timely halt &#8211; SC must lay down rehabilitation norms for eviction from public spaces\u201d <\/strong>published in <b>The Hindu <\/b>on <b>9th January 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 1 \u2013 Urbanization, their problems and their remedies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About the land conflicts between the public and the state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Earlier, the Uttarakhand High Court demanded the eviction of around 50,000 people within a week as they are accused of squatting on railway property for decades in Haldwani in Uttarakhand. But recently the Supreme Court has halted the forcible eviction.<\/p>\n<h5>What are the directions of the Supreme Court?<\/h5>\n<p>The court <strong>a)<\/strong> Demanded the need for rehabilitation before eviction, <strong>b)<\/strong> The court orders had allowed proceedings against individual occupants under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971, to be complete before eviction.<\/p>\n<h5>About the land conflicts between public and state<\/h5>\n<p>People tend to encroach on public land as there is a <strong>shortage of housing <\/strong>and <strong>inadequate recognition of the right to shelter<\/strong>. This often leads to attempts to evict the occupants and spawns litigation.<\/p>\n<h5>What are the impacts of land conflicts between the public and the state?<\/h5>\n<p>-The public claims occupancy rights based on long years of stay at the same location.<\/p>\n<p>-Court judgments stress rehabilitation measures. But mandatory rehabilitation may prove to be an incentive for encroachment. Further, India does not have a good record on the rehabilitation of evicted people from public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Supreme Court in the Haldwani eviction case should <strong>a)<\/strong> lay down the law on meaningful rehabilitation, <strong>b)<\/strong> Prescribe effective prevention of encroachments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cA timely halt &#8211; SC must lay down rehabilitation norms for eviction from public spaces\u201d published in The Hindu on 9th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 1 \u2013 Urbanization, their problems and their remedies. Relevance: About the land conflicts between the public and the state. News: Earlier, the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-timely-halt-sc-must-lay-down-rehabilitation-norms-for-eviction-from-public-spaces\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A timely halt &#8211; SC must lay down rehabilitation norms for eviction from public spaces<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,10498],"class_list":["post-221661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700011230},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}