Provide transport to schoolkids: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Secretary and Commissioner of Transport for Government of NCT of Delhi to take immediate steps in facilitating the commutation for school children affected in the Kathputli colony demolition.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar's direction comes after it was informed that about the difficulties faced by the colony members in shifting to Narela and how it was affecting the children to commute to school.

The court's order come while hearing a petition filed by a group of 50 families who were displaced after their houses were demolished by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on October 30, 2017.

During the proceedings on Thursday, the petitioners informed the court about the difficulties faced by the colony members in shifting to Narela and how it was affecting the children to commute to school.

They also said that there were 65 school going children in the lot, out of which 41 were studying in Class 10, whereas 24 students were of Class 12 requesting immediate rehabilitation of the affected families to Narela flats as the education of their children was being disturbed due to demolition.

"You have demolished the houses of school going children. What about the children who are studying in Class X and XII?," the bench asked adding that it cannot be denied that the children have to be shifted so as to commute to school and therefore the respondents have to take every measure possible in this regard.

In connection to the relief to the inmates of the colony, the bench directed the DDA to make appropriate corrections in the affidavits of the people who are to be shifted and to inform all the allottees by way of letter.