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New delhi: The Centre Tuesday told the Supreme Court that deliberations on the issue related to removal of around 48,000 slum dwellings along the railway tracks in Delhi were going on and no coercive action would be taken against them. We are not taking any coercive steps," Mehta told the bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian. The top court on August 31 had directed the removal of around 48,000 slum dwellings along the railway tracks in Delhi within three months and said there shall not be any kind of political interference in execution of the plan. However, Millennium Post reported that as late as the third week of November, the Railways and the Centre were dragging their feet on the rehabilitation of these slum dwellers. The Delhi government had already suggested over 30,000 households to shift some residents out but received no response from the Centre or the Railways..