The (unprivileged) polluter pays: Conflict of Rights in Delhi’s stormwater drain-adjacent ‘informal’ settlements

Shruti Syal

Planning Practice & Research, 2024, vol. 39, issue 6, 960-993

Abstract: The juridical construction of India’s Right to Life has recognized right to water and sanitation in ‘informal’ settlements but not right to clean environments, the latter instead applied to label them as polluters. Given past evictions based on nuisance law in Delhi, and the emerging juridical construction of Rights of Nature for River Yamuna – polluted by waste disposal – the biophysical impact of ‘formal’ vs. ‘informal’ settlements needs clarification. Water quality and land use analyses at stormwater drain-adjacent settlements in Delhi show pollution occurs upstream but becomes visible here, lending settlement residents environmental agency in an emerging Conflict of Rights scenario.

Date: 2024
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