Dialogue partner, Nawada. There is a shelter built for the destitute in Nawada Sadar Hospital, where they never reach! In the Municipal Council area, they spend the night under cover of trees, plants and buildings and then work hard during the day to earn their livelihood.
Be it the new building of Nawada Railway Station or the old one. In the cold winter nights, these destitute people sleep against the walls of the building, wrapped in tattered mats (a mattress made of clothes), blankets or old banners.
Drivers, medical technicians and supervisors of ambulance vehicles have set up shelter in the shelter for the destitute built in the Sadar Hospital premises. Although they are not homeless, their home has been made in shelters for the destitute. Their beds are kept on the second floor of the building. In such a situation, the target group set by the government is not getting the benefits.
There is no monitoring of the shelter for the destitute, in the absence of this only the resourceful people are taking illegitimate advantage of this government scheme. The situation is such that even the relatives of the patients admitted in the wards of Sadar Hospital are not able to reach here. So that they can have a place to hide their heads at night. Due to lack of information, the shelter for the destitute seems to have deviated from its goal.
Even the state level shelter monitoring committee does not take care
The Supreme Court has decided a major case WP(C) 55/2003 E.R. In the light of Kumar and others vs. Union of India, a State Level Shelter Monitoring Committee has been constituted to monitor the operation of the shelter for the destitute, which monitors it from time to time.
Despite this, the government scheme is failing to benefit the targeted section. Eight to nine people stay in this shelter every day, but they are not destitute. Rather, ambulance drivers are drivers, EMTs and other competent people.
Sometimes even if a destitute reaches a shelter, he does not turn here the next time. Due to lack of departmental monitoring, people other than the target group are staying in the shelter.
The shelter is run by the Urban Development and Housing Department.
Under the Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihood Mission (DAU-NULM) of the Central Government, shelters for the destitute have been constructed in every district of the state. A three-storey shelter for the destitute has been built in the Sadar Hospital complex located in Nawada Municipal Council area at a cost of about Rs 49 lakh.
Earlier, there was arrangement for accommodation for about 50 people here, along with which food was also provided by paying a fixed fee. After getting the information, people started staying here, meanwhile the Covid-19 infection period started and due to lack of resources, this building was used as a Covid-19 care ward. Since then its condition went from bad to worse.
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