In a bid to provide shelters to the poor and homeless people living on the streets and roadsides, Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) announced that the number of Rain Baseras in the State capital will be increased to seven.
Mukhya Nagar Adhikari at MCD, Ashok Kumar said that seeing the winter chill in the State capital MCD is planning to increase the number of shelters for the underprivileged and homeless people to seven. Of these total seven shelter homes three are permanent while four of the shelters would be temporary ones.
The three permanent shelters homes have been opened at places like ISBT, Chukkhuwala and one near Municipal Corporation of Dehradun office.
Meanwhile, the remaining four shelters homes which will be opened on temporary basis would be located near the Government primary school behind Parade Ground, second one near Niranjanpur Sabji Mandi, third one near Railway Station and fourth shelter home would be opened at Race Course.
However, these temporary shelter homes will be available only during the winters. Kumar also stated that various necessary facilities including blankets and woodstoves would also be provided by the MCD at all these Rain Baseras.
As many as seven officials of MCD would be deployed as incharge of all these Rain Baseras. Around five Junior Engineers (JEs) and two Tax Superintendents (TS) would handling the charges of these Rain Baseras.
Kumar informed that these MCD officials would be visiting the shelters regularly on rotation basis. Different officer would be given charge on each day of the week.
Interestingly, these shelter homes would also be providing space for the women destitutes and for families as well. No charge would be taken from the visitors, stressed Kumar.
Notably, earlier there was only one shelter home existing in the State capital but in order to provide shelter to the homeless and destitutes, the MCD is planning to increase the number of Rain Baseras in the town.It is worth mentioning here that earlier the manager of the Doon Shelters Society for the Homeless, Deepak Kukreti had also complained that there was only one shelter home in the State capital which remained overloaded with people.
He informed that around 120 destitute used to visit the only shelter on daily basis. The general capacity of the shelter is only of 80-85 people while the number of visitors is much higher than this.