Anti Eviction Support Cell-India (AESC) combines direct field intervention, advocacy, capacity building of community, research and legal support in the case of eviction. We do it through our direct presence or through a network of field based organisations working in the issue in different cities. We try to provide a range of support to the community having threat of eviction or a community which has faced an eviction in different cities. We firmly believe in the idea of social justice and human rights and it allows us to consider urban poor as an integral part of a city. With any loss to habitat an urban poor is left helpless. We try to reconcile their effort in order to empower them to fight their own struggle.
With new infrastructure development schemes being implemented in different urban centre across country, urban poor living in low-income informal settlements have become vulnerable. We as AESC try to capacitate communities with legal as well as socio-political tools to handle eviction on their own. This is done through creating community based networks or a basti based task force which is always alert about situation. Similar actions are taken in the case of eviction of street vendors. Informality is a very nature of street vending and most of the time they are evicted for being informal. Even after the enactment of law for the protection of livelihood and regulation of street vending in 2014, street vendors are being evicted across the country. With our support in cities like Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, and Delhi several eviction drives were resisted and street vendors could continue vending.
How do we function:
We have a support Cell number: 9833900200.
If a person from community or market call us on this number for reporting an incident we connect her/him to our city network partner.
Then We follow the following chart:
