India, Feb. 10 -- On Sunday, the residents of a slum settlement in Government Colony, Bandra East, protested outside their residences against their relocation to a SRA (Slum Rehab) building in Appa Pada in Malad East. The alternative accommodation was allotted to them by the Public Works Department (PWD) after they were categorised as project-affected people who were in the way of the construction of a new Bombay high court building.

The residents of Gautam Samta Nagar, which is registered as a housing society, are worried about their livelihoods and future, as they have been ordered to vacate their houses by next month. The eligible families will be relocated to Appa Pada while the ineligible will have to fend for themselves.

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