Across a bend along the Yamuna, beneath the towering pillars of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, 22-year-old Marjeena sits outside what remains of the city’s old Dhobi Ghat, wondering how long her family would be able to call this place home. Her anxiety mirrors that of hundreds of families living along the Yamuna floodplains after two eviction notices — one issued by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for settlements in O-Zone and another by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) for around 310 dwellings in Yamuna Bazaar — directed residents to vacate their homes within 15 days, failing which, demolition drives will be undertaken to clear the encroachments. “Even if this demolition had happened four or five years later, we could have managed,” Marjeena says. “By then, we might have saved enough to move somewhere else.” An aerial view of the Dhobi Ghat slums After a quick scan of the maze of jhuggis around her, she says, “It is not a good place to live.…