JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA

DACEE

“COMMUNITY PROFILE

OF JASOLA GAON”

Submitted to: Dr. Nasra Shabnam

Submitted by:

Ramsha Nusrat

M.Sc Development Extension , I Semester

Roll number: M3522083

Year: 2020-22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude

towards my teacher and supervisor, Dr. Nasra Shabnam,

who guided me at every point during my field work. She

pointed out my mistakes, corrected them and cleared all

of my doubts whenever I needed. She helped me with her

exemplary guidance. Without her immense support and

effort it would have been impossible to complete my

fieldwork within the limited time frame.

Secondly, I would also like to thank my parents and my

teammates who supported me a lot in completing my field

work. Successful completion of my field work is the

culmination of tireless efforts of many people and I owe

my gratitude to each one of them.

-Ramsha Nusrat
 TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. INTRODUCTION…………………………………...…4

2. IDENTIFICATION OF THE COMMUNITY….……6

3. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION………………….…..7

4. HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY……………….…8

5. PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY…………………....9

6. DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE...………………………11

7. ECONOMIC PROFILE………..…………………….12

8. TYPES OF HOUSES………………………………....14

9. ACCESSIBILITY

 SANITATION……………………………….15

 TRANSPORT……………………..…………16

 WATER SUPPLY………………..…………16

 LEGAL AID CLINIC…………….…………17

10. RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS PLACES……...18

11. AREA LEADER…………………………………19

12. ACCESS OF THE COMMUNITY

 MEDICAL FACILITIES……………………….20

 RAIN BASERA………………………………….20

 OLD AGE HOME…………………………….…20

 SKILL TRAINING CENTRES…………………21

 FORMAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES……21

 NON-FORMAL EDUCATIONAL

INSTITUTE………………………………………22

13. NGO WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY…….23

14. SOCIO ECONOMIC PROBLEMS……………..24

15. PREVELANT CRIMES IN THE

COMMUNITY………………………………………...26

16. CONCLUSION………………………………...…27
1. INTRODUCTION OF THE COMMUNITY

Community that was assigned to us by Dr. (prof)Nasra

Shabnam was Jaola gaon. Jasola gaon is a part of Delhi,

situated near Jasola metro station. Area wise, it is a fairly

large community with many people living in peace and

harmony. Population of the community consists of

mainly two religions that are: Hinduism and Islam. Both

people of these religions live in peace and stand up for

each other when ever needed. Me and my teammates

(Luqmaan Rais and Khushboo Khan) spent 15 days,

doing fieldwork together with an average of 7.5 hours in

block. In this period, we observed various aspects of the

community. We explored the community and introduced

ourselves to community members too. We were

welcomed with open arms in almost every cluster and

received immense respect from the people of community.

Some of them taught some things about life too.

Observing these people living in the ‘capital of the

country’ is deeply saddening. It’s the dark unexplored

side of the capital in which I reside. Politicians promises

to provide and fight for their basic amenities like clean

water and toilets in order to get vote but forgets as soon as

elections get over.

These people don’t even have access to clean water for

drinking purpose, clean toilets or let toilets be alone.

Unemployment rate is at highest after COVID19. Increase

in education gap and decrease in quality of education due

to lockdown puts development speed of this community at

a higher risk.

Hygienic condition of the community is worse. Jasola

gaon is a very unhygienic community with open and

stinking drains everywhere that are the powerhouse of

mosquitoes as well. As a result, diseases of various kinds

putting lives of everyone at risk specially of infants.

These unhygienic conditions results in UTI’s in men and

women, and all kinds of skin infection which we found

very common while filling performas.

2. IDENTIFICATION OF THE COMMUNITY

Jasola gaon community in area is a fairly larger one. It is

the part of the capital of the country. Most of the people

in the community are living in below poverty line, having

minimal access to various basic facilities. People located

here have miscellaneous backgrounds including religions,

beliefs, traditions, cultures, castes, socio economic

backgrounds and occupations. People are indulged in all

kinds of occupations but mostly are daily wage labourers.

Community have various leaders including religious,

political and local. Most of the daily wage labourers are

indulged in broom making and selling business either

foot or on cycle. Some are fruits, vegetables, fast food,

fish, papad , chaat, etc vendors. Community had various

saloons, beauty parlours and a fair market along with a

sabzi mandi. Various people practiced animal husbandry

as side business too. Community had a fair system of

medical facilities along with functional aanganwadis.

Schools and various educational instituted functioned well

too. All of them have an educated staff along with decent

number and quality of teachers. Fair number of cases of

UTIs, loose motions, skin problems, dengue, malaria,

diabetes, hypertension and heart problems are reported on

a daily basis. Hygienic condition of the community is

very poor; making it the leading cause of most of the

diseases among the members.

3. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION

Jasola gaon is a part of the capital of the India that is

Delhi. It is in New Delhi and centrally located on the

crossing of NH-2 and gateway to Noida, making it a

strategic location. Nearest metro station is Jasola metro

station which is situated on violet line. Other nearest areas

include Shaheen bagh, Abul fazal enclave, Kalindi Kunj,

Madanpur Khadar and Sarita Vihar. PIN code of Jasola

gaon is 110025. Nearest river that flows from the

community is- The River Yamuna.

4. HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY

Jasola gaon is an integral part of Delhi since India gained

its independence. People permanently here are situated

here from or even before the independence of India.

People who live on rent or purchased flats/land shifted

here not a long time ago. Jasola gaon is believed to be

very old. Only few people here own large lands which

they inherited from their fathers and forefathers.

Surprisingly, most of them belong to the same family.

These people are believed to be the leaders of the

community. Even their fathers and forefathers have

played the role of leaders for the community people at

some or another point of their lives. They have built

hundreds and thousands of kutcha, pucca and semi pucca

jhuggis or one room flats to give on rent which ranges

from 1500 to 3000 rupees per month.

People living on rent have adjusted their lifestyle and do

not complaint much about the living conditions. Some of

the tenants are living since past 30 years too. But most of

them are living here since 1-10 years. They have come

here, leaving their homes after getting affected from

disasters. Specially places like Bihar and Bengal where

floods are common.

5. PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY

People of the community have different faiths, beliefs and

backgrounds but have one thing in common- poor,

unhygienic conditions that they live in. People in the

community mainly follow two religions- Hinduism and

Islam. Hindu being in the majority. Various Hindu diety

temples are made for worshipping in the community. Two

mosques and one madarsa are present in the community

for Islamic people. People living in the community are

very different from each other. Whoever People who are

somewhat same, prefers to live together. So, people

having same religion, castes and same businesses prefer

to live together, forming a cluster.

People who choose to live together even after being

different, lives in peace and harmony; stands up and

supports each other. One thing that we noticed was unity

among the people. People are united in the community

and are determined to fight every difficulty together. They

know their way out that is education. Almost every family

have admitted their wards in school. They want their

children to study and do better with their lives. Most

people spends half of their family income on studies of

their children.

People after being or not being different, shares one thing

in common-Poverty. Eight out of ten people are living in

the worse conditions possible with no kitchen, no closed

drainage systems, no toilets and very poor ventilation

system. Most of the houses that we visited were non

cemented and were built of plain mud and straw. There

were mostly single room set for four to five family

members to share.

Despite the community situated in the NCT, there were

illegal electricity connections and long power cuts are

common. Indoor pollution is a common problem in most

of the jhuggis because of the fact that these people have

same kitchen and bedroom; making habitat inappropriate

for humans specially for infant- making them prone to

pneumonia. Unsanitary conditions were rendered further

unbearable by heat from the stove inside the house, sn

outside and flies breeding over the utensils.

6. DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF THE COMMUNITY

The locality Jasola Vihar falls in South East Delhi district

situated in NCT of Delhi state, with a population 45092.

The male and female populations are 24426 and 20666

respectively. The size of the area is about 3.95 square

kilometer.

Population (2020) 45092

Population Density 11402 people per km²

Male Population 24426

Female Population 20666

Mostly population belongs to OBC and Scheduled Castes.

Some people are from general category as well.

7. ECONOMIC PROFILE

Economic condition of community is poor. Most of the

community members hardly manage to earn minimum

wage even after working extreme long hours ( almost

about 10 to 11 hours). Most of their jobs require physical

work. Since they work on daily wages, they hardly leave

their work to rest. In fact, only leave for them is when

they don’t get employed. Unemployment even for a single

day makes their lives tough. Most of the family we met

told us they earn and spend almost everything on the very

same day. Savings are very minimal and almost every last

penny spent is on education of their children.

Women and men both work to manage home expenses.

Primarily, women work as maid or servants in other

households; whereas mostly men work as daily wagers.

Prime reason for women to work as servants is that most

of the women have to look after their children, have to

cook and clean as well so they can’t manage jobs that

require 10 hours of labour. Men don’t have these

boundations on them so they opt for daily wagers.

Another reason for women not become daily wager is –

there exists a gender gap in this field. Gayatri Devi -a

female daily wager told us it is very difficult for her to

work as daily wager because she is only paid around three

fourth of what her male counterparts make, even after

working equal. She was too a servant in house before

lockdown but her owners didn’t pay her during lockdown.

Even her outstanding payment is never made to till this

day.

Most of the daily wagers work at the construction sites.

So, during lockdown all of them were unemployed. This

was one of the prime reasons why they had to leave Delhi

and had to go to their native places. Some of the

community members told us they miss their neighbors

and friends who still haven’t come back from native

places. Lockdown was tough on all of us but worst on

these people. With no savings and income, they had

 nowhere to go except hometown. Till to this day, most of

them haven’t made up for what they lost during

lockdown.

Only a fraction of women work as house maids or

servants. Most of them remain unemployed no matter

whatever economic problems they are facing. Nearly half

of them don’t even wish to learn any skill or to gain any

entrepreneur skill but other half wants to but have various

reasons why they can’t learn.

 Unemployment is common in men too. Besides as daily

wagers some other work as e rickshaw driver, cab driver,

truck driver, tea vendor, carpenter, electrician, broom

vendor, fruit and vegetable vendor, chat wala and barbers.

While some women worked in beauty parlour and tailors.

8. TYPES OF HOUSES

Eight out of ten houses that we visited were non-

cemented and were built out of plain mud and straw.

People lived mostly in single rooms with no separate

kitchen, toilets and bathrooms.

On an average, single room is occupied by 5 to 6

members of the same family. Mostly people live in jhuggi

and all of them live on rent. One bathroom and toilet is

allotted to 10 jhuggis. Rent of jhuggi depend upon the

condition of walls and roof which ranges from rupees

1700 to 2500.

According to the data based on our survey, findings are:

S.NO TYPE OF NO. OF PERCENTAGE

HOUSE FAMILIES

LIVING

1 KUTCHA 11 44%

2 SEMI- 12 48%

PUCCA
3 PUCCA 2 8%

 44% families that participated in the survey lives in

the kutcha house.

 48% of those families live in semi pucca house.

 8% of the families live in pucca house.

Ventilation and circulation of air inside jhuggis is almost

zero. Poor ventilation, lighting, air circulation and open

drainage are very common in community homes. Making

living conditions worse specially for infants. Open drains

near living area results in breeding of mosquitoes and

flies. As a result, diseases like dengue, malaria and

chikangunia spread very easily. These unhygienic living

conditions also result in other diseases like skin problems

and UTI in both men and women.

9. ACCESSIBILITY

 SANITATION

While making observations about sanitation facilities

available for community people, we noted that

community overall have very poor sanitation facilities.

We found no toilets built by government.

Every Community clusters have common toilets and

bathrooms. On an average, we found 1 toilet and 1

bathroom per 10 single rooms/jhuggis which are cleaned

in every 3 to 7 days depending upon the rent and owner of

the particular cluster. No need to mention that toilets and

bathroom of every cluster stinks and spreads many

diseases specially skin problems that are highly

contagious.

Jhuggis which have less rent (in range Rs.1300 to 1700),

have no toilets and bathroom at all.

These people have to go to jungle or some dumping

ground. We witnessed children and women using these

places.

Access to clean toilets and bathrooms is a basic right of

everyone. But, in Jasola gaon, it is denied to almost

everyone. As a result, UTIs are common in both men and

women. Vector responsible for spreading contagious

diseases multiplies rapidly in perfect environment. People

paying for toilets and bathroom get dirty, stinking toilets

and people not paying for these ends up going in open.

It’s deeply saddening to see such condition of people that

are living in NCT. It’s almost unbelievable even after

having advertisements all over our digital platforms,

government policies and high budget movies made up on

the same topic and the same problem still prevailing and

affecting the lives of fellow human beings.

 TRANSPORT:

 Railway: okhla railway station and tughlaqabad railway

station are the only two nearby railway stations to Jasola

gaon, new delhi.

 Local bus: nearby bus stands are :Sarita vihar crossing

bus station, Apollo hospital bus stand, jasola village bus

station, okhla tank bus station. Various buses runs from

Jasola to different places.

 WATER SUPPLY:

Water supply of Jasola gaon is mainly tanker supply type.

We found no hand pump or drinking water site made for

public. Inside very few clusters, we found a single hand

pump available for hundreds for family living there.

Mostly all of the community members have to buy their

own water as per their requirements.

Tanker that provides people water generally don’t have

clear water and hence, it is not suitable for drinking.

S.NO WATER NO. OF PERCENTAGE

SUPPLY TYPE FAMILIES

USE

1 BORING 08 32%

2 TANKER 13 52%

3 MUNICIPAL 02 8%

4. HAND PUMP 02 8%

Therefore, people use it for other uses; defying the main

purpose of water tanker. On asking community members,

we found that only 52% of the community members

manage to get their hand on water from tanker supply,

making it a luxury among community members.

Water tanker arrives on different times every day. People

literally have to keep checking for its arrival until it

actually arrives. Long lines and wait for long hours

sometimes is common. Main job of filling and bringing

water is only for women and children.

Private water sellers also make their income by selling

clean water to almost everyone in the community. Many

paniwalas generate their incomes by doing this business.

 LEGAL AID SERVICE

Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people

otherwise unable to afford legal representation and access

to the court system. Legal aid is regarded as central in

providing access to justice by ensuring equality before the

law, the right to counsel and the right to a fair trial.

Yes. Article 39A of the Constitution of India provides that

State shall secure that the operation of the legal system

promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity, and shall

in particular, provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation

or schemes or in any other way, to ensure that

opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any

citizen by reason of economic or other disability.

Articles 14 and 22(1) also make it obligatory for the State

to ensure equality before law and a legal system which

promotes justice on a basis of equal opportunity to all.

Legal aid strives to ensure that constitutional pledge is

fulfilled in its letter and spirit and equal justice is made

available to the poor, downtrodden and weaker sections of

the society.

In the community we found no legal aid clinic for the

community people. Most of the people don’t even know

about legal aid clinic and its functioning.

10. RELIGION

Maximum of the population follows Hinduism. Other

than this, most families are muslim and very few

Christians.

Sno. Religion No. of Percentage

families

1. Hinduism 13 52

2. Islam 12 48

3. Christianity 0 0

During the survey of these 25 families, 52% of the

families are Hindus, 48% families are Muslims and

0% of the families are Christians.

 RELIGIOUS PLACES

Hindu people worships in two temples that are :

1. Mata ka mandir

2. Kali ma mandir

Hindu people offer prayer and distribute prashad to

everyone irrespective of their religion.

Muslim people offer prayer in 1 mosque that is named as

‘Khalid Bin Waleed’. Majority of the muslim men offer

prayer together on Friday.

For Christians of the community, there are two churches

side by side. Majority Christian people gather on Sunday

and pray together.

11. AREA LEADER:

Area leader aims at creating awareness of rural

possibilities; providing information on resources, inputs

and infrastructure; deploying technical assistance; skills

acquisition and development; increasing literacy levels;

improving productivity and productive systems; adapting

appropriate technology in agriculture; sensitizing

potential volunteers and donors among other things.

Area leader of Jasola gaon are 3-4 people who basically

own major lands in the community. These owners have

built their own clusters in which hundreds of families live.

For example Jaggan colony is owned by Jaggan

exclusively and all the families that live there call him

their Sarpanch. He in return takes care of the facilities like

toilets and bathrooms made for cluster members. There

are other leaders like Jaggan that provides home to these

poor people and charges rent in return.

12. COMMUNITY ACCESS:

 MEDICAL FACILITIES

There are various medical facilities available in Jasola

gaon. Allopathic, homeopathic and hakeem doctors along

with various gynaecologists and dentists sit and attends

patients in the community.

Government medical facilities includes 2 mohalla clinics

and a mcd dispensary. Whereas private medical facilities

includes all sort of small and big clinics even some

specialized doctors too.

Most of the community people prefer going to private

doctors as their fees is minimal. Mohalla clinics are very

oftenly used by people.

 NO. OF FAMILIES GOING NO. OF FAMILIES GOING TO
TO PRIVATE DOCTORS IN GOVERNMENT DOCTORS IN
THE COMMUNITY THE COMMUNITY

12 13

PERCENTAGE 48% 52%

 RAIN BASERA

Rain basera is a hindi word translated as ‘shelter home’-

made for homeless people. For community people,

government has built a rain basera with capacity for upto

20 people, providing nutritious diet 3 times a day. In rain

basera, there lived 20 men who cannot afford a place to

live at night even after working all day. These men send

all of their income home for their families and live totally

dependent on rainbasera for everything.

 OLD AGE HOME

An old age home is a place where old people are provided

shelter and food to live. They are also provided with

healthcare facility and other amenities.

Old age home in Jasola gaon is a place where people

above 60 years reside whose family members don’t exist

or don’t want them anymore. People residing in old age

home had no one and police brought them there after

finding them on the streets.

Old age home is a part of one of the church in jasola gaon.

3 nuns of the same church runs the old age home facility.

Old age home runs on the charity donated by various

people.

During the lockdown period, charities given by people

was very less and major donators left the community; but

church provided funds for the functioning of old age

home.
 SKILL TRAINING CENTRES

Skill Development training Centre is a platform to

enhance the skill and make the students industry ready in

Training is crucial for their development which is indeed

fruitful to both employers and employees of an

organization.

Skill training centre in Jasola gaon is operated by church.

It helps women and girls of all age group to learn sewing

and tailoring while charging a minimal fees i.e. Rs.2500

in which beneficiaries get a sewing machine too.

Women and girls after getting training, starts their own

business and starts earning.

Other training centres are various beauty parlors that train

women in beautician and makeup skills.

 FORMAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES

We spotted various formal educational institutes all over

jasola gaon that comprises of both governmental and

private institutes. People all over the community preferred

government institutes over private ones. Faculty and

infrastructure wise, government educational institutes are

much better and affordable.

 NON FORMAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES

Non formal educational institutes are present all over in

the community. These are of every kind. Some of them

have facilities like sitting arrangement, black or white

boards and computers. There are institutes for spoken

English classes, institutes offering various computer

courses, personality development courses and simply

educational institutes that prepares students for

competitive exams.
Most famous and successful institute is Dr Sriniwas’s

institute. They provide free or discounted fee for

hardworking and poor students and is doing great for the

development of the community and its members.

13. NGO WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY

Organizations which are independent of government

involvement are known as non-governmental

organizations or non-government organizations, with

NGO as an acronym. NGOs are a subgroup of

organizations founded by citizens, which include clubs

and associations that provide services to their members

and others.

While working in the community, we found not even one

operational NGO in the community. There used to be

several NGOs in the community before the national

lockdown, but in current situation, there are no NGOs in

the community. On enquiring, we found NGOs like

Sakshi and magic bus had their offices in the community

but they are closed now for various reasons.

There are some NGOs that work in the community but

have their offices somewhere else. For example, NGO -

orphans is working for the orphans of the community,

providing them ration and money for living. Other NGOs

and organizations like roti bank and Islamic relief and

research are working for the welfare of the community.

14. SOCIO ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF THE

SOCIETY

 Shelter

The biggest concern that the people live in jhuggies

voiced was that of shelter. Being confined to a small

jhuggi in Shaheen Bagh any day they could be forced to

relocate. This impacts not just immediate state of

homelessness but also affects the little education that their

children get from Government Schools and efforts from

institutions like Don Bosco and Jamia Millia Islamia who

are actively helping the children in the camps.

S.NO NO. OF NO. OF PERCENTAGE

ROOMS FAMILIES

1. 01 24 96%

2. 02 0 0%

3. 03 1 4%
 S.NO RENT NO. OF PERCENTAGE

PAID FAMILIES

PAYING

1. >Rs.1000 03 12%

2. Rs.1000- 16 64%

2000

3. Rs.2000- 06 24%

3000

4. Rs.3000- 00 0%

4000

Living Conditions

People live here in poor condition with poor supply of

water and electricity. Despite the place being situated in

national capital of the country there was no electricity in

most of the houses. Owing to the fact that the kitchen and

the bedroom were one and the same, the place became all

the more unpropitious for human habitation. The

insanitary conditions were rendered further unbearable by

heat from the stove inside the house, sun outside the

house and flies breeding over the utensils.

S.NO KITCHEN NO. OF PERCENTAGE

TYPE FAMILIES

1. SEPARATE 02 8%

INSIDE

HOME

2. OUTSIDE 11 44%

HOME

3. COOKING 12 48%

CORNER IN

HOUSE

Out of 25 families that participated in the survey,

 8% of the families have a separate inbuilt kitchen

in their houses.

 44% of the families don’t have any kitchen space

and hence have to use space outside their houses

to cook food.
  48% of the families don’t have separate kitchen

in their house but they have made a cooking

corner inside their houses.

S.NO TYPE OF NO. OF PERCENTAGE

CONNECTION FAMILIES

1. LEGAL 19 76%

2. ILLEGAL 06 24%

Out of the 25 families that participated in the survey,

 76% of the families have legal electricity connection.

 24% of the families have illegal electricity

connection.
 S.NO. SANITATION NO. OF PERCENTAGE

FAMILIES

AVAILING

1. POOR 21 84%

2.

AVERAGE 4 16%

3. GOOD 0 0%

Out of the 25 families that participated in the survey,

 84% of the families have poor sanitation facilities.

 16% of the families have average sanitation facilities.

 0% of the families have good sanitation

facilities.
 Lack of Education

Education is another major challenge in the road to the

empowerment of the community. Owing to the repeated

migration and social exploitation faced by the community,

the members face another major problem of low literacy

level, especially among women and children.

Furthermore, though it was very hopeful to see that many

children go to government schools; it was deplorable to

find that many did not for reasons as puny as

unavailability of anyone to help them navigate their way

to school, i.e ., access. The condition becomes even more

gruesome with the financial and social disabilities faced

by them wherein they do not have the money to pay the

fees.
• Drainage System and Sanitation Facilities

The entire community was clogged with open drains filled

with untreated wastewater and household garbage

providing breeding ground for mosquitoes and other

disease-causing vectors. Furthermore, these drains ran

across the middle of the community right through the

doors of a number of houses making the living condition

all the more deplorable. Thereafter, the poor condition of

the community toilet which is used by a major chunk of

the refugee population as most of the houses do not have

toilets has further aggravated the sanitation facilities here.

S.NO. DRAINAGE NO. OF PERCENTAGE

TYPE FAMILIES

AFFECTED

OPEN 25 100%

1.

2. CLOSED 0 0%
  Health problems

People of the community suffer from various diseases that

are very common all over the community. Most of the

diseases are due to lack of hygienic conditions like dirty

toilets, bathrooms and open drainage system. Other big

diseases are lifestyle diseases like diabetes, obesity,

malnutrition and hyper tension.

 OTHER PROBLEMS

Young people see a wide range of problems including

poor sexual and reproductive health, abuse such as genital

mutilation and self-harm. Some women faces dangerous

issues particularly during pregnancy, childbirth and the

period after birth. There are still some rules and

restrictions for them. Some women are beaten to death.

Domestic violence is one of the most important issue here

is that women are facing. Most common problem of every

third house was substance abuse practiced by a family

member. It literally drains both- health and money of the

family.
15. PREVELANT CRIMES IN THE COMMUNITY

Crime rate of the community is fairly low but factors that

are responsible for increasing this rate are very common.

Most of the people are not aware of their basic

fundamental rights. With no or very little knowledge, it is

very easy to violate their fundamental rights.

Unemployment being the highest right now in the

community make people go for the shortcuts that can give

them money. Phone and chain snatching is very common

in the community. Pocket pickers are everywhere, ready

to target men and women everywhere in the whole

community. We also came across some incidences of

sexual harassments and stalking.

These people know each other’s highs and lows,

weaknesses and strengths, so, it makes exploiting one

another very easy. Most of these don’t have basic

documents like aadhar and pan card, making them believe

they can’t file any complaint against anyone.

Highest unreported crime that we observed was domestic

violence among the women. Most of the women tolerate

all kinds of violence silently that includes emotional,

verbal and physical violence. On asking some women

replied its okay if their husbands/son/ in-laws abuses them

because they are financially dependent on them and can’t

go anywhere without them. So, they suffers silently while

normalising it for their own children.

16. CONCLUSION

The community members of Jasola Gaon were

overwhelmed by our visit. In contrast to the prejudicial

opinion that most of the people garner about refugees,

they were extremely forthcoming and tried their best to

make us feel comfortable and welcomed.

There exist some common problems in the community

that makes the elevation of developmental growth in all

aspects less steep.

Some common problems faced by the community people

concuded in the nutshell are:

1. People here are mostly unemployed. Women usually

worked as house maid or stitching or men work on daily

wage laborer's while a fortunate few work as battery

transport vehicle drivers who bribe the police every time

they are caught some are tea vendor, electrician or

vendor.
2. Upon interacting with the community heads and

caretakers, our team found that the electricity supply is

extremely poor. The people are forced to live without fans

and light. Further, only a few houses of slightly well offs,

have electric sub meter while majority of the houses have

no resort to the same even in the scorching heat of the

city.

3. Here water comes from boring, hand pump, or tanker. The

water tanker supply is limited for which there is always a

fight. Alternatively, they rely on hand-pipes, whose water

is contaminated by nearby drains and leads to despicable

health conditions.

4. Here, discriminatory attitudes towards either sex have

existed for generations and affect the lives of both sexes.

People here are mostly in favor of men. due to this, it

affects many aspects in the lives of women from career

development and progress to mental health disorder.

Many girls are forced to drop out of school. For them, a

girl child is considered a burden. the birth of a baby boy is

celebrated with great pomp. But the birth of a girl's child

is received with dismay. Be it education, helps, protection

and participation. The girl child is always treated

unequally here.

Even after facing all the issues, community people are

determined and commited to overcome these and very

motivated to change their and their children’s life for the

better.

The most inspiring part of the entire visit was that despite

facing so many difficulties and leading such a stressful

life, all the people were extremely humble and soft

spoken. They interacted with us calmly, answered all our

questions patiently and explained their problems to us but

not even once did they blame anyone for their situation.

The positive spirit of the community and the courage in

them to fight for a better tomorrow was indeed the best

take away for us from this visit which not only made our
endeavors meaningful but also encouraged us to stand for

their rights and work for their betterment.

REFERENCES

1. Demographic profile: https://geoiq.io/places/Jasola-

Vihar/59MDNQpNhf