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Stiff opposition to GHMC’s night shelters
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Stiff Opposition To GHMC’s Night Shelters. The GHMC’s commitment of making Hyderabad a more habitable and hospitable city for the poor who migrate to the city, is the driving force behind the idea of night shelters.
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The GHMC’s commitment of making Hyderabad a more habitable and hospitable city for the poor who migrate to the city, is the driving force behind the idea of night shelters. The idea for night shelters was to accommodate the homeless people, who braved the winter’s chill and slept on the footpaths. Now they have a night shelter which they can use to sleep in until they are able to stand on their feet and arrange an accommodation for themselves.
The GHMC currently has 14 night shelters under its limits which are fully operational with beds, sheets, blankets and drinking water facility. Each of these shelters can accommodate close to 400 people and the civic body plans on constructing four more shelters in the coming months of which each can harbour 200 people.
Though this idea has a humane cause at heart, it is facing a few hurdles in its implementation and execution. On one hand there are corporators who are against the idea and on the other, there are resident’s associations and locals who are opposing it.
The corporators are rebelling against the idea as in places where there was no land available for night shelters, the GHMC had plans of converting community halls into shelters. But the corporators say that the community halls should serve the purpose they were intended for.
Resident associations have a problem with the idea because they claim that it will become a hive for miscreants and would ruin the harmony of the colonies. “We have faced a lot of protest while trying to build night shelters in places like the Old City,” said Mohammed Majid Hussain, Mayor.
GHMC commissioner, Somesh Kumar, has plans of establishing these shelters near hospitals, as they see the highest number of visitors from out of the city and the attendees who tag along with the patients, can take rest over there. “We plan on setting up close to 60 per cent of the shelters near hospitals so that it will be a convenience for both the hospital and the patients’ relatives,” said Somesh Kumar.
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