Rehabilitation of victims after the 2002 riots has changed a lot about the way people have been living in this city, Ahmedabad. The research follows through with the help of an NGO, Janvikas Sanstha, who has been helping the victims past 16 years now. 

 

After 28th February 2002, riots there were 85 colonies across Gujarat which were set up for rehabilitating victims. There were around 17 in Ahmedabad itself. All of them are facing their own set of problems. From electricity, water issues to hygiene, and lack of institutions like hospitals and schools.

 

Out of which one society was based just next to the dump yard. This dump yard is a whole mountain of garbage from Ahmedabad and nearby small towns. There are 32 small shed houses with just one room, in this locality which were made after rehabilitation from a Muslim organization committee. The people here however now are very much against the idea of taking help from NGOs and organizations after some recent misunderstanding and dissatisfactory output from them.

 

Mr. Mohammad Punjabi and his wife Mrs. Khatun Bibi are a family of 6 living in one of these localities named, Citizen Nagar. His story of how he had come and got stuck in this area. And how he has no hopes for improvement in there is about it. His reasons for why he cannot go back to Naroda Patiya or back to Punjab have become his pain to stay back next to the garbage dump yard. 

 

The colony is about 2.5 km away from the main road. Which makes the people there difficult to go out of there for work because of the lack of conveyance. The story of Mr. Punjabi and family is just an example of what and how others have been living in the same and similar localities.

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