Jockin Arputham was an Indian community leader and activist, known for his campaigning work of more than 40 years on issues related to slums and shanty towns.
10 Facts About Jockin Arputham
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Jockin Arputham was born in Karnataka, India and moved to Mumbai, where he quickly became politicized and established himself as a community leader.
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Jockin Arputham worked at the construction of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.
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Between 1971 and 1972, Jockin Arputham went to Kolkata to work with refugees escaping war in Bangladesh.
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Jockin Arputham sat outside the Parliament in Delhi for 18 days until the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi would see him.
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Jockin Arputham promised they would not be evicted, but in 1976,12,000 police stormed the slum and evicted all 70,000 people in one night.
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When India declared a state of emergency, Jockin Arputham was forced to flee the country in 1977 to avoid imprisonment.
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Jockin Arputham was the president of the National Slum Dwellers Federation which he founded in the late 1970s.
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Jockin Arputham was co-founder of Slum Dwellers International which networks slum and shack dweller organizations and federations from over thirty countries across the world.
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Jockin Arputham has worked with the police to set up "police panchayats" in many of the informal settlements in Mumbai.