Click to play videoAhmedabad: Ishad Bano Shaikh and her family stay at an Ahmedabad locality that has been set up by an NGO.
They have houses but little more. The locality, named Citizen Nagar, is right next to the city's largest garbage dump.
There is no school nearby and the houses have no proper water and drainage connections. Ishad Bano still has fond memories of her earlier home at Naroda Patiya.
"Earlier it was good. There is no vegetable market here. It is far away from the main road and there is this huge garbage dump. But since we have come here, we'll have to adjust. The government gave us nothing," says Ishad Bano.
She echoes a recent finding of the National Commission for Minorities, which found serious problems in the rehabilitation package given for those displaced in the Gujarat communal riots of 2002.
The Commission, in its latest report, said so far only seven per cent of the compensation has been disbursed, as a result of which people continue to live without the very basic facilities.
The residents of Citizen Nagar complain of poor sanitation and resultant illnesess.
On the occasion of Eid, residents of Citizen Nagar are looking to forget past memories and start life afresh. But those wounds are too hard to heal.
"We are trying to adjust to this place, but it is difficult. The garbage of the entire Ahmedabad is dumped here and people fall sick very often," says another Citizen Nagar resident, Saleha Shaikh.
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