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Slum-dwellers' relay fast for pattas enters second day

Staff Reporter

CITU leader seeks house site pattas for all slum-dwellers after conducting a survey

ANANTAPUR: The relay fast launched by residents of several slums located on the outskirts of the district headquarters town entered second day on Friday. The protest was led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

Speaking at the protest camp, district secretary of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) M. Imtiaz said repeated requests to officials concerned had failed to resolve their problems. He said that a large number of families were residing in several slums without any right on the land where they had raised their thatched houses.

They were also being denied basic amenities like roads, streetlights, drinking water and drains.

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