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Award of Excellence: Under the Flyway

A narrative picture story or thematic essay photographed outside of your home country that either reports on significant events, celebrates life, portrays sport or explores environmental, social, economic or political topics.

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Kabaddi Game

A group of young students play a game of Kabaddi after school at the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Monday, April 1, 2024. The school, Panchsheel Shikshan Sansthan, is a semi-permanent structure that is the only option for education for most of the children living there. STORY SUMMARY: Those living under the flyway in the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp located in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar have migrated from states all over India in search of a better life for them and their children. Having established their homes without any official documentation, the livelihoods they have built over the years are now at risk. In 2015, construction of a new flyway began - right on top of a number of homes and fields. Despite the establishment in this area prior to the construction, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has begun to remove homes without any way for those living there to contest it. While the construction currently continues to push into the homesteads, those who live there have no choice but to continue on with their day to day tasks with the threat of relocation ever looming. Sampal, a farmer who has lived in the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp for 24 years, says of the community “As long as we can live here, we’ll be here”. The continued goal for a better life in Delhi hangs in the balance of the continuation of the flyover construction.

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