Nagari Nivara Parishad's Office in their housing project in Dindoshi
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Nagari Nivara Parishad
Cultural Center
Tilt down: Nagari Nivara Residents Cultural Center, Dindoshi.
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Nestled on the top floor of the cultural center in the Nagari Nivara Parishad housing complex is the office of the NNP. The ladies toilet functions as the archive room. An office bearer pulls out the architectural drawing and layouts of the project, and takes us through the "paperwork" that made this social housing co-operative possible.
First this form, and then we took documents like ration cards, income proof.
Affidavit that was made then
If they were self-employed an affidavit for income group was made.
Generally, most people were self-employed.
Which year was this?
'87.
This is a receipt for 5,000.
In their account?
Everyone got a receipt from here and money was deposited into their account.
A bank account in New India Cooperative was opened for every member.
After that the main procedure of Nagari Nivara...
Every member's form was made here and sent to the Collector.
That form was like this... Here's a copy of that form.
Every member's documents were made
like this, joined and then sent.
member
A resident recalls the long struggle of 20 years from the time he squatted on the highway in Kandivali East and became a member, to moving into his home.
Since 1979. I used to live in Bandongri, Kandivali East, on the highway.
It was a slum area where I lived.
After that Nagari Nivara Parishad was formed, then they set up this project, of which I became a member.
After that we along with Nagari Nivara Parishad struggled for
20 years against the government to finally got this house.
The struggle gave us the satisfaction of having won, and of
having built our own homes on land we got from the government.
It would be different had we bought the land.
But the triumph of having built one's own home is as fresh today as it was back then. This house is our own.
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