Delhi High Court To Hear On Monday PIL Seeking Immediate Relief Measures At Yamuna Flood Relief Camps

The Delhi High Court will hear on Monday a public interest litigation seeking immediate measures like free ration, medical assistance, sanitary provisions and other essentials for people at the Yamuna flood relief camps in the national capital.

The matter was mentioned today before a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula which said that the matter be listed on Monday.

Filed through Advocate KR Shiyas, the PIL also seeks direction on the Delhi Government to notify the flood as a natural disaster under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and also to provide immediate cash assistance of Rs. 50,000 for those who lost their belongings and shelter.

The plea has been moved by Akash Bhattacharya, a former Assistant Professor of Azim Premji University, who has contended that the flood that happened in the Yamuna floodplain is the most devastating calamity occurred in Delhi since the year 1978.

“That the lackadaisical response from authorities cost the livelihood of hundreds of poor and destroyed their sole shelter which contained household items to important documents which proves the existence of the concerned,” the plea reads.

It adds that the Delhi Government has a constitutional as well as statutory obligation to provide immediate assistance to the victims of natural calamity under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and that the flood will constitute a disaster under the section 2(d) of the enactment.

Title: Dr Akash Bhattacharya v. Delhi Disaster Management Authority through Chairperson Lt. Governor & Anr