By including farmers in Yamuna riverfront plan, Delhi can ensure sustainability and social justice
Creating accessible public spaces and rejuvenating urban ecology need not mean that the people who already exist on ground should be left out. Yamuna river s banks are home to several farming communities | Desmond Boylan/ Reuters
How many of Delhi’s residents have been to the river’s edge or even get to see it, except for the times they cross over by road or metro? In a city that has severed its relationship with its river, it is perhaps only the farmers living along it who still retain a direct link with the Yamuna. If Delhi hopes to retain any modicum of sustainability in the future, it is essential that it retains this connection.