Currently, the scenes of women and children hanging out in the Manohara squatter settlement are spreading on social media. In the name of sustainable development and urban beautification, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City and the empowered Bagmati Civilization Integrated Development Committee are making a concerted effort to 'dig out' squatters by expanding the slums with dozers along with the Nepal Police. Panic flashes of dozer terror have also spread among the other riverside residents who are monitoring the status of Manohara.

The group calling them 'the elements that increase the ugliness of Kathmandu' and giving them many epithets like 'Hukumbasi, robbers who avoid state taxes' and slandering them is also scattered on social media.

Overall, such a view of the landless, squatters and unorganized dwellers is negative and unjust. There is one such group in the city - who blindly cheer Mayor Balen (Balendra) Shah. This group questions like this - 'Are those who have a TV fridge at home also squatters? Balen's dozer style to chase them down is great, Move on Mayor Balen!' 

In Thapathali's squatter settlement, 14 families are forced to use two latrines. Considering the availability of infrastructure and basic services in the slums, the dwellings there are not considered adequate from the point of view of human rights. What is the reason for wanting to stay in this place for at least the last 20 years? Is it because I get a piece of Ghaderi in the heart of Kathmandu or because I have no choice? Tathanam speakers refer to this scene as 'a drama performed by squatters'. But it is also important to understand whether they are trespassing or have taken shelter as harmless. Encroachment is based on greed and greed while taking shelter depends on the basic needs of the individual. Individual or collective efforts have been made to make

settlements. Within the settlement, Poorkhi Sac Budget Women's Group has been formed and they have raised goats, chickens and ducks, grocery business and household chores. In this effort, 'squatters raise goats? Ducks, do you have a squatter who raises chickens? Before using words such as squatters are business owners, the questioner should ask himself - 'Can squatters not be allowed to organize food fairs? Because they are squatters, they can't sell goat meat?' In one corner of Kumar Vick's residence is a sewing machine. He is making a living on that call. Why don't those who find it easy to throw cheap insults think about how our social structure has brought Dalit citizens like Vick to the Bagmati banks? Why don't we look at the squatter life through the eyes of the marginalized?

Out of about 200 people in the slum, 80 percent of the children are studying in government schools, while 20 percent of squatter families send their children to private schools when the income earned from labor is sufficient. The struggle of the parents of these children is focused on ensuring that the immediate future of the offspring does not have to suffer the daily life of poor squatters like theirs.

Therefore, to fulfill this dream, they get up early to sell labor in this city and go beyond the limits of the house. Some reactions are directed against some people who have gone abroad to study or work from squatter settlements. Does the squatter always have to be seen in a false state so that he can be called a witch? Should those who are in the lower ranks of the society always take blessings from those who are in the established or higher ranks of the society? When the street is full of restaurants, the Dalit, the oppressed, the oppressed and the poor should not walk or dare to walk? 

Those who are raising fire against squatters on social media, they themselves have entered and settled in the city in search of opportunities. Like them, squatters are also looking for opportunities and taking advantage of them. A city is a structure, in the life cycle of which the individuals and families of the slums play a role. They are fulfilling the needs of the city from labor to other needs by performing various roles and livelihoods, including delivering goods in handcarts.

The women of squatter settlements have been working as domestic workers from the settlements of Singhadbarias and Mahanagariyas. After this woman rubs her palm, the city shines from the city to the city. It is nothing but unfortunate to say that he is the one who cleaned the garbage of Kathmandu and made Kathmandu dirty. 

It is also important to understand that there are not only those who burn tires in the heart of Kathmandu in the hope of finding a light in the slums, but also the art and hard workers who complete the buildings that have been built and are being built in Kathmandu. They were left with no choice after being brutally and mercilessly taken away by the Thelagada metropolis, which they had bought to live on through the money collected by cutting their daily bales and the loans of the group. Soon after that, the metropolis again entered their slums and blew off their roofs amid the screams of the slum dwellers. 

A few months ago, compensation was not given to those who were robbed, and livelihood options were not suggested. Now, the lives of the sick, helpless, elderly, disabled, disabled, pregnant women, children and women have been put at risk by destroying their habitats during the rainy season. The action of the Metropolitan and Bagmati Civilization Development Committee, which has been diverted from the basis of housing and livelihood, has violated adequate housing and human rights. Neither the city government nor these two bodies will be happy just because they have demolished the illegally built structures. It is also a matter of judicial accountability.

During the prime ministership of Baburam Bhattarai, some people who woke up after years of driving dozers in the Thapathali slum were reduced to zero again. At that time, many children's school was left in the middle. When the children of Agla Gharwalas were going to school, they fell behind by one more year. There is no doubt that the same cycle will repeat itself this year. 

There are many reasons why you have to leave your home and come to a squatter settlement. Some are landless, homeless, some are forced to leave the slums during the implementation of projects of national pride, hydropower, etc. and are unable to find alternative housing, those who have to be displaced due to natural calamities and wars, those who hide in the metropolitan area due to forced conditions, and those who do business in sacks are sheltered in squatter settlements. It is the binding responsibility of the state to identify and protect people affected by extreme poverty, unemployment and violence.