Aksyon LALIT – Abitan Lakaz Lamyant Cluny kont Notis Eviksyon

10.06.2026

Abitan lakaz lamyant dan Cluny ti gayn notis eviksyon depi Distrik Kawnnsil Grand Port date le 27 Me. Sa notis-la, dir ki pu kraz zot lakaz alor zot bizin tir tu zot zafer, evakye zot lakaz. Zot finn kontakte militan LALIT dan zot rezyon pu diskit ki pu fer. Sa notis-la ti vini 2 semenn apre ki Minis Lozman finn anons ki pe al ver enn plan ranplasman lakaz lamyant, me ziska ler pena okenn plan (get nu websayt www.lalitmauritius.org pu plis detay). Vedir kan gayn notis eviksyon, abitan pu lor pave, san lakaz. Su seksyon 22(5) Building Control Act, abitan osi riske ziska Rs 200,000 lamann ek ziska 4 an prizon si zot refiz evakye zot lakaz.

Alor militan LALIT dan rezyonal Curepipe-Lesid finn organiz enn rankont avek Vis-Prezidan Distrik Kawnnsil Grand Port, Ritesh Gopy, Zedi 4 Zin, dan lasal konsey.  Enn delegasyon konzwin LALIT – abitan lakaz lamyant Cluny finn zwenn Vis-Prezidan Gopy, Chief executive Distrik Kawnnsil ek inzenyer Distrik Kawnnsil. Rajni Lallah finn explik listorik lalit abitan lakaz lamyant ansam avek LALIT pu guvernman ranplas lakaz lamyant ki li finn vande avek abitan. Li finn osi explik kimanyer diferan guvernman depi 2015 finn dakor ki lakaz lamyant enn danze pu abitan, finn mem dekrir lakaz-la kuma lakaz “toxik”, finn aksepte responsabilite pu ranplas zot, me ki 11 an apre, guvernman pa finn futi ranplas okenn lakaz.

Inzenyer Distrik Kawnnsil finn explike ki depi 2023, Minister Lanvironnman pe sey fer Distrik Kawnnsil fer abitan evakye zot lakaz. Distrik Kawnnsil finn gayn direktiv depi Minister Administrasyon Rezyonal le 13 Novam, 2025 pu avoy notis eviksyon, e sa finn swiv par enn rankont avek Minister le 14 Novam. Ziska ler, li dir, 60 fami fini gayn notis eviksyon dan Grand Port.

Vis Prezidan Gopy finn rasir abitan prezan ki Distrik Kawnnsil pu intervenir vizavi Minister konserne pu dir zot ki pa kapav fer abitan kit zot lakaz tank ki pena lozman alternatif. Li finn dir Distrik Kawnnsil pu ekrir Minister konserne pu dir zot sa. Rajni Lallah finn dir LALIT pu avoy enn let Minis Lozman, ki prezid komite Interministeryel dan lekel ena Minis Lanvironnman ek Minis Administrasyon Rezyonal pu ki li met so bann koleg a-lord: pa kapav kraz lakaz san ki ena enn plan pu ranplas lakaz lamyant e ki ofer lozman alternatif. Sa pu ede pu anpes ki Minister al fer lezot Distrik Kawnnsil ek Minisipalite avoy notis abitan lakaz lamyant dan zot rezyon.

Ala let ki LALIT finn avoy Minis Lozman:

The Minister of Housing and Lands

Hon Shakeel Mohammed

Dear Sir,

LALIT calls on you, as Minister chairing the Interministerial Committee on Asbestos Housing Replacement, to ensure that the Ministry of Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change and the Ministry of Local Government stop directing the District Council of Grand Port and any other District Council or Municipality from serving eviction notices on asbestos housing inhabitants. These notices callously threaten asbestos house inhabitants that their homes risk being “pulled down” and “removed” leaving them homeless. These notices have been served on some 60 families in Grand Port up to now (see a copy of the notice and section 22 of the Building Control Act attached).

We also call on you to ensure that both Ministries give immediate formal and public reassurance to asbestos house inhabitants that these notices will be nullified and that both Ministries, aware of the health dangers of asbestos housing, will work in collaboration with asbestos house inhabitants to re-house and/or replace their homes with safe and secure housing. This is urgent given the confusion and panic that these notices are causing. Provision in the coming budget for replacement of asbestos housing would demonstrate exactly how serious the government’s intention is.

LALIT together with a group of asbestos house inhabitants in Cluny met Mr. Gopy, Vice President of the Grand Port District Council, Mrs T.D Ramkissoon Mungoosing, Chief executive of the District Council and the engineer who made the report on Thursday 4th June morning. They explained that the Ministry of Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change had for some years been calling on the Ministry of Local Government to get the District Council of Grand Port to issue such notices. On 13th November, 2025, the District Council of Grand Port received a letter from the Ministry of Local Government directing them to issue such notices. They assumed that relevant arrangements had been made to re-house inhabitants when according to your Ministerial Statement in the National Assembly of 12th May, 2026, no plan for asbestos housing replacement has been finalised yet. When we apprised them of this, Vice President Gopy told inhabitants present that the District Council had no intention of making asbestos inhabitants homeless. He also said that the Council would write a letter to the Ministries concerned to inform them that the District Council could not issue such notices without inhabitants being given alternative housing. We do not know whether other District Councils or Municipal Councils have been contacted and may be in the process of serving such notices, but it is likely that they have been directed to do so

We note that you stated on 13th May in the National Assembly that “The Ministry of Local Government will expedite legal notices on abandoned units”. Nowhere in this statement do you refer to legal notices be served on residents of asbestos houses. We assume you are not aware of such notices.

We also note that both Ministers of Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change and the Minister of Local Government are part of the Interministerial Committee that is supposed to prepare a plan for the replacement of asbestos housing. How can their respective Ministries be so ruthless as to give directives for local authorities to issue such notices when they are fully aware that such a plan has not been finalised yet?

Yours sincerely,

Rada Kistnasamy and Rajni Lallah

for LALIT