New Delhi: After hard work a day, it was disappointing for Pawan, which produced RS 10-50 a day pushing a published rickshaw, not to find a bed in two winter shelters at Kashmere Gate on Friday night.
In both shelters for homeless people, the beds were all taken when he got there.
Pawan has no choice but to brave the night under the winter sky.
Lying on tarpaulin sheets and a piece of foam, Pawan covered himself and other workers, Shankar, with sheets and thin blankets.
“As a laborer, I hardly get Rs 100 per day, not even enough for basic costs.
My work will end at 8pm, but the night shelter is fully occupied at that time because most people started arriving there around 6pm, “Shrug Pawan, who was among 15 homeless people were found to sleep on the sidewalk on Friday.
Shankar added, “It’s cold cold in the open, but what choices do we have?” With dipping temperatures, the homeless people turned to the night shelter to brave cold.
Because most of them were fully occupied at 8pm, many of them were forced to spend the night in the open.
Mulpuk Pal, another worker, said, “I managed to sleep for two nights at home.
However, I was late on Friday and when I visited a temporary shelter house, all 10 beds were occupied.
Go without choice, I joined my friends On the sidewalk.
“According to the Delhi Urban Shelter Council (Dusib), 277 winter shelter has been arranged.
Although this original capacity was 19,340, the social blasphemy norm because Covid reduced the bed to 8,706.
Dusib data showed 4,969 inmates living in Day Shelter in 277 sites, while 6,969 people spent the night there on Friday.
Dusib said 17 rescue teams had shifted to 2,594 homeless to the nearest house since October 30 tent shelter from previous years.
But this is not comparable to the homeless population.
“Members of the Bipin Rai said,” We have a tent available in standby and we will install it in places we receive information about the collection of homeless people.
When our rescue team found people sitting on the sidewalk, they took them to the nearest house, even though we did not force people to go with us.
We have deployed 16 vans of rescue throughout the city.
“Rai added the staff at night the protection was asking people to wear a mask, although during his visit, Ti was noting that most inmates did not wear a mask.
When Ti visited the shelter’s house while Yamuna Bazar in Kashmere Gate on Friday, 11 people were sleeping at 10 Beds.
Two inmates, Vicky and Mangal, who shared the bed said, “We both worked on the same site as workers and when we only found one bed, we decided to share it.” At Yamuna Pushta in Kashmere Gate, 12 places Stayed with 350 operational beds.
They were almost completely occupied at 9pm on Friday.
Shailendra Sinha, who was responsible for the facility, said, “About 90% inmates arrived when we served dinner at 7:30 p.m.
Given the high demand, we have told the dream and temporary shelter with 60 beds will be arranged on Saturday.
“It was similar in a night shelter at Sarai Kale Khan.
In one of the permanent shelter houses for the family, Ravi, there with his wife and six children, said they had slept on the bed on the floor because there were no beds available.
Another prisoner, Kalu, grumbling the television does not work.
However, there are still a few families who sleep on the sidewalk near the Sarai Kale Khan bus stand.
Mamta, tried to comfort her two-year-old son while two other children slept on the sheets on the sidewalk, said, “I have never been to A night shelter because my husband didn’t want to go there.
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