Kerala’s Pariyathukavu residents hope government intervention will put an end to eviction threat
On a cloudy evening early in the third week of May, a police officer from the Special Branch of the Ernakulam police reached out to some residents of Pariyathukavu, a Dalit settlement close to Malayidamthuruth, around 10 km from Perumbavoor. He had an unpleasant message to deliver. “We need to implement the court order without fail. The court has given us the ultimatum,” he stoically told the anxious residents. He was referring to the execution of an eviction order which has been pending for a while. The developments have cast uncertainty over the future of seven families, all relatives, who live in the Pariyathukavu settlement, along the Periyar Valley Canal. Moderate houses with plastered walls and concrete roofs situated on either side of a sloppy mud lane, bordered with thick green bushes sporting crimson hibiscus flowers, make up the Pariyathukavu settlement. Most of the residents say they have been living in the settlement for decades. 14 eviction attempts Till now, the residents, backed by some political parties, had managed to avoid the execution of a …
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