-Frontline A report by ActionAid and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences highlights the vulnerability and tragic living conditions of thousands of children who take shelter in Mumbai's streets. IN 1988, the acclaimed film-maker Mira Nair made Salaam Bombay!, a poignantly revealing film on street children in Mumbai. The plot revolves around the protagonist, Krishna or "Chaipau", who is kicked out of his home by his mother for having damaged his...
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100 New Night Shelters to be Opened Soon: Sisodia
-Outlook New Delhi: Delhi government today announced that it would be opening 100 new night shelters across the city over the next few days with a view to providing relief to the homeless from the biting cold. Talking about the proposed move, Urban Development Minister Manish Sisodia said the SDMs who had been asked to map the homeless in the city had found 4,018 persons sleeping in the open at 212 locations. "At...
More »Kejriwal Takes Measures to Help the homeless
-Outlook New Delhi: Delhi government today announced a series of measures to provide roof to the homeless in biting cold sweeping the city and decided to replace all the night shelters being run from plastic tents with porta cabins within three days. "An order has been passed to replace all night shelters with porta cabins within three days," Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a statement released here. He also directed SDMs to...
More »UP tops list of communal incidents and related deaths
-PTI NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh recorded the maximum number of communal incidents in the first ten months of 2013 accounting for one out of three clashes in the country and also the highest number of resultant deaths - 95 out of 143, the Rajya Sabha was told today. The northeastern states of Sikkim, Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland reported no communal incidents this year. According to data provided by Union minister...
More »HC asks lawyers to ‘keep an eye’ on homeless in their localities -Aneesha Mathur
-The Indian Express New Delhi: Faced with complaints from NGOs over the harassment of the homeless in the city at the hands of police, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked lawyers associated with a PIL on the issue of night shelters to "keep a vigil in their neighbourhoods" to ensure that the homeless are accommodated at nearby night shelters. With the civic agencies, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB), Delhi government,...
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