Mohammed Younus/ Hyderabad: In yet another initiative in solving the problems of the people, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has come up with an idea of rest shelters for labourers and poor visitors to the city. GHMC is chalking out modalities in this regard. Large number of people residing on footpaths, either temporarily or regularly, forced the authorities to think in this direction.
The idea of rest shelters is not new though and already there are few shelters built in recent past for the needful at some places in the city, but keeping in view the large number of sufferers GHMC is expanding the plan. The shelters will be helpful to the laborers, patient attendants who come from different parts of the state and stay on footpaths in front of the hospitals and for other poor people. On the other hand daily wage laborers also have to stand under the sky suffering in rain, scorching sun or in any weather condition. Almost 50 plus locations were identified in city where shelters are needed. The shelters will have basic facilities like drinking water, a toilet and a registration counter in case of the labourers and will be of 200 to 400 people capacity.
GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar said that the shelters will be constructed near selected big hospitals where large number of people come for treatment and the attendants generally live on footpaths until the treatment of their relatives is over. Municipal body is of the idea to rope in several NGOs in this work to serve the purpose of this task.
He said that in a survey conducted by GHMC through some NGOs it was revealed that around 10,000 people sleep on the roads most of them are the attendants of patients in different hospitals. He said, “We have located 50 more such locations where shelters are needed.” He added that Facilitating Centre (Shelters) will be set up at identified locations to help the labourers. State minister for labor and employment Nayini Narasimha Reddy also vowed to support this scheme and asked the concerned officials to come up with blue print.
The idea of rest shelters is not new though and already there are few shelters built in recent past for the needful at some places in the city, but keeping in view the large number of sufferers GHMC is expanding the plan. The shelters will be helpful to the laborers, patient attendants who come from different parts of the state and stay on footpaths in front of the hospitals and for other poor people. On the other hand daily wage laborers also have to stand under the sky suffering in rain, scorching sun or in any weather condition. Almost 50 plus locations were identified in city where shelters are needed. The shelters will have basic facilities like drinking water, a toilet and a registration counter in case of the labourers and will be of 200 to 400 people capacity.GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar said that the shelters will be constructed near selected big hospitals where large number of people come for treatment and the attendants generally live on footpaths until the treatment of their relatives is over. Municipal body is of the idea to rope in several NGOs in this work to serve the purpose of this task.
He said that in a survey conducted by GHMC through some NGOs it was revealed that around 10,000 people sleep on the roads most of them are the attendants of patients in different hospitals. He said, “We have located 50 more such locations where shelters are needed.” He added that Facilitating Centre (Shelters) will be set up at identified locations to help the labourers. State minister for labor and employment Nayini Narasimha Reddy also vowed to support this scheme and asked the concerned officials to come up with blue print.
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