Assuring people residing in North-east Delhi about food and other essentials, Cabinet Minister Gopal Rai on Monday said the Delhi Government will set up more relief camps to accommodate riot victims.
Rai visited a relief camp at Mustafabad which has a capacity to accommodate 1,000 people. The relief camp was set up by the Delhi Government to give shelter to the families affected in the communal violence, which broke out in parts of North-east Delhi last week.
There are provisions for food, water and medicines in the camp. It also has a helpdesk to facilitate processing of compensation forms filled by the riot victims.
"We will set up more relief camps in other affected areas too if needed," Rai said.
The minister said after speaking to the local MLAs of Seelampur and Mustafabad, he got to know that some "innocent" persons have also been picked up by police.
"Their relatives are running here and there in hospitals and police stations looking for them. We hope that this issue will be sorted out immediately. The guilty must be punished but at the same time, the innocent should not be harmed," he added.
Rai said he would meet the Delhi police commissioner in the evening to discuss this issue along with the problems caused due to rumour-mongering on Sunday.
"We had talked to MLAs of Seelampur and Mustafabad and understood that police have picked innocent people also. Their relatives are running here and there in hospitals and police stations looking for them. We expect that this issue may be sorted out immediately," said Rai
Adding furthermore, Rai said that we want the guilty must be caught and punished at the same time.
According to Delhi government officials, now the SDMs and other officials are working in the affected areas to assess the loss due to the damage of houses and shops.
"In the hospitals also, filling forms for compensation is facilitated and I witnessed the same in the GTB Hospital yesterday. For those who can't go out of their houses, NGOs, Civil Defence Volunteers are visiting them at their doorstep," "Also, the SDMs visit the victims' houses in the assigned sectors. We ensure that assistance in all respects reaches the victims wherever they are at present. First, the affected people required to fill the forms and later the officials from the offices of SDM and PWD will verify the documents," said Rai.