Status Paper on Sonia Vihar

Status Paper on Sonia Vihar
By Dr. Annapurna Mishra,
Municipal Councilor
Sonia Vihar

Sonia Vihar is a colony situated in Karawal Nagar Assembly constituency of North East Parliamentary seat in the capital city of India.

Population in Sonia Vihar generally is migrated population with lower socio-economic profile. People from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Bengal and various other places are living in this colony.

Sonia Vihar has approximate 1, 50,000 population. Sonia Vihar municipal ward includes Sonia Vihar colony and a village named Badarpur Khadar. Badarpur Khadar village is a backward village with minority population.

On development front, Sonia Vihar is one of the most backward municipal wards in Delhi. With no drainage facility, no health center, no piped drinking water supply Sonia Vihar is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis. People are forced to live under inhuman conditions.

This status paper briefly informs reader about unsatisfactory living conditions of people of Sonia Vihar and initiatives to deal with the same.

Sonia Vihar: on the verge of Humanitarian Crisis

Imagine a small piece of land with dense population of 1, 50,000. It has no supply to drinking water, no health facility, no drainage system, no sanitation mechanism, connected to the world with a single lane, narrow road. Welcome to municipal ward no. 272 in the capital city of India. Yes all these details fit perfectly to Sonia Vihar. To have a look at infrastructure gaps in Sonia Vihar, please click here:

STATUS PAPER ON SONIA VIHAR BY Dr. Annapurna Mishra