NHRC team visits shelter homes, finds shortcomings

Delhi | Thursday | 9th December, 2021

Summary:

New Delhi, Dec 8 (PTI) A team of the NHRC on Wednesday inspected a few shelter homes and found shortcomings at two such facilities, officials said.

The team was led by NHRC member justice M M Kumar, who went for an inspection of the shelter homes run by an NGO under a Delhi government scheme at Turkman Gate.

These included shelter homes for men, women and old-age people, they said.

The team found that the infrastructure at the shelter homes was very poor.

There were small rooms that could only accommodate 8-10 homeless persons whereas 25 persons were found living there.

The ceilings were leaky that needed urgent repairs.