Adopting a resolution to this effect at a workshop here recently, Indicare Charitable Trust said, in the event of absolute necessity for removing the people or people who have already been removed from the slums, alternative place for proper resettlement should be provided. Indcare has also called for a proper settlement planning with the participation of local communities to provide basic amenities like drinking water, street lights, public toilets, storm water drains and pathways. The NGOs, which come under Delhi Action Group drafted, the resolution at a workshop conducted on Sunday on the eve of World Habitat Day.

``India is a signatory to a global resolution which deems that shelter for all as a basic human right. But no policy has been formulated to make it so in India,'' Reeva Sood, who heads Indicare, the lead agency of Delhi Action Group said. ``Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma has been harping on raising the cut off date for regularising slums to January 1998. But no action has followed these sentiments,'' she said.

Shelter for all as basic human right is part of the BJP manifesto but BJP governments are yet to put this into practice, she said.

The workshop which was on `access to land to the poor' focussed on eviction as a denial of a basic human right.