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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTI Reveals No New Night Shelter Added in Delhi Under Kejriwal Government in Last Two Years -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

RTI Reveals No New Night Shelter Added in Delhi Under Kejriwal Government in Last Two Years -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

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published Published on Jan 23, 2017   modified Modified on Jan 23, 2017
-TheWire.in

The homeless, especially women, have no place to go to during the winters in the capital.

Despite a large population of the homeless, including women, unable to access night shelters in Delhi, not a single night shelter has been added by the Arvind Kejriwal government in the past two years. This has been revealed in a reply to a query filed by Delhi BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana under the Right to Information Act.

Revealing the contents of the reply received by him, Khurana said the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) in reply to the RTI filed by him revealed that there were 263 night shelters which were operational on February 14, 2015 when the Kejriwal government was sworn in for the second time and the number remained the same as on December 31, 2016.

As for the occupancy at these night shelters, Khurana said the DUSIB website noted that a total of 10,755 people were staying in these night shelters on December 31, 2016.

Khurana, who is son of former Delhi chief minister Madan Lal Khurana, claimed that while the AAP government talks about “poor people”, it actually does little for their well being. In another tweet he said “111 people died because of cold and all were poor people sleeping in cold nights”.

The issue of night shelters and facilities provided in them has been a raging one and every year during winters it figures prominently in political and social discussions. Thousands of people use them to take shelter from the bitter cold in the capital.

According to the Supreme Court Commissioner’s Office, the population of homeless in Delhi stood at about two lakh in 2011 whereas the census had estimated it to be 46,724 in the same year. As such the number of people availing of these shelters is minuscule in comparison to the numbers who actually need them. The problem is more acute with homeless women, as there are only 21 night shelters for them.

There are 261 night shelters operating in Delhi this winter, which include 21 meant solely for women. In fact following a visit to night shelters in May 2016, Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal had observed that their safety during their stay in these shelters was precarious.

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TheWire.in, 23 January, 2017, https://thewire.in/101795/rti-reveals-no-new-shelter-added-delhi-kejriwal-government/


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