Mohd Talim ran a photocopy shop until July 2023, but he now leases out a small strip of pavement for bicycle parking at Rs.10 per bike.
During peak days, he can make approximately three hundred rupees daily compared to one-fourth of what earners at twenty do in photocopier Business.
The parking space is situated across from dilapidated shops near Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati Government College and Hospital; one of these shops was Talims that was demolished during the Nuh riot on July 31st last year.
“This is my only means of survival: says this parking lot. There are seven boys in our family and each one of us used to own a shop here that has later been flattened.”
On Thursday morning, Talim said: “We lost our income and now we’re rebuilding with whatever is left of us.”
Between August 3 and 6 2023, there were about 350 buildings which included slums restaurants and motels completely burnt to ashes.
Why? Because all illegal construction and encroachment should be removed. For instance, Krishan Kumar (Nuh police spokesperson) as well as divisional magistrate Ashwini Kumar admitted that these properties were occupied by rioters or people who throw stones from rooftops.
Afterwards Vijay then home minister called this bulldozing operation ‘ilaaj(treatment)’. Pull down The process was stopped on August 7 after the Punjab and Haryana High Court asked if it constituted “ethnic cleansing” when it noticed certain papers whereupon the operation had been based. Arif Khan (36), whose store has since been destroyed, opens a diagnostic centre several yards away from Talim’s shop At his basement clinic however one part of the ceiling has caved in thus somebody covered it using foil paper. Even though this arrangement is for now but Khan wants to get this opportunity for himself. He hopes that having a hospital just next to him will bring sufficient customers to his centre.
“Almost three months have passed since I decided to make this place into a diagnostic clinic after its partial demolition which had almost made us die. I only put up a wooden board outside and arranged some chairs here,” Khan said. The receipt said.
There are no plans for Khan to open another lab elsewhere.
“The Land ownership documents permit us to develop the land into a diagnostic clinic,” he added. However, Aas Mohammad’s house is located right in front of the group of shops. Part of this one-story house was demolished last year.
In return, As well as built two rooms for their family with the assistance from an NGO; but both his sons should find alternative ways of making it own.
Mohd Hasim used to operate a grocery store at Nalhar while Mohd Kasim his other son opened a tea shop and sold corn close by there.
As explained that the grocery stores were razed following community violence with police stopping them from using carts.
On occasions, my sons get jobs; at times they don’t. They now earn their living by packing and unpacking parcels for an online shopping company. They are paid 400 rupees a day. This job compels them to travel to other proximate villages, which is quite more inconvenient than the former store we had lived in,” he said. While preparing for his daughter’s wedding on August 11th. He noted that his family does not have “constant income” to allow him do what he wanted regarding the event. Speaking with TOI, Nuh police spokesperson Krishan Kumar responded clearly when asked. Whether carts would be allowed or not that no one of such kind would kick out any legal vendor or business establishment from Nuh being its representative.
