Homeless

Friday, December 28, 2012

Press Conference and Report Release On Homeless

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Joint Inspection Report prepared by Advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioners

In the light of the Supreme Court order, dated 07th January 2011, joint inquiry team comprising the government officials and representatives of Bihar Advisor to the Supreme Court Commissioners inspected 25 homeless shelters in 5 cities.

The needy poor were not aware about homeless shelters because administration had not done sufficient publicity.

Findings of the enquiry team disclose that all the centres were furnished just a few days before start of the inquiry White washing was done recently & new blankets and bed sheets were found. In most of the homeless shelters basic amenities like toilets, drinking water facility & cleanliness were not found. All shelters lack community kitchen, registration facilities, security, alternative lighting facility during non-availability of electricity and mosquito repellants. There was no separate shelter for destitute, women and children.

We are thankful to government officials, representatives of the Bihar Advisor and poor residents of the shelters home for the contribution in making of this report.

Read full report click on link below:
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Inspection Letter - Bihar

14^th January 2011

The Chief Secretary

State of Bihar

Shri Gopal Singh

Advocate for State of Bihar

Sub: Supreme Court of India

Writ Petition (Civil) 196 of 2001

PUCL Vs. UOI & Ors.

Sir,

You are aware that on 7.1.11 the Supreme Court made an order in the above matter with respect to Bihar which is as follows:

“Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner has shown a number of photographs and filed a report pertaining to the night-shelters. According to the report, night-shelters have not been constructed or erected by the State of Bihar according to the norms. The photographs show that the night-shelters have not been properly erected and basic amenities have not been provided in the night-shelters. The capacity of the night-shelters is also not in consonance with prescribed norms. Mr. Gopal Singh, learned standing counsel appearing for the State of Bihar submits that he will take up the matter with the Chief Secretary of the State today itself and would ensure that all the 51 night-shelters in the State of Bihar are upgraded in consonance with the prescribed norms and basic amenities would be provided in these night-shelters. As a last opportunity, he prays for two weeks time to augment the facilities in the night-shelters.

The State of Bihar must appreciate the intense cold weather in the northern part of India is creating havoc for the poor shelter less people and it is absolutely imperative that these shelters must be upgraded and basic amenities in the night- shelters be provided on priority basis.

In the interest of justice, we grant two weeks' time to ensure that all night-shelters are erected in accordance with the prescribed norms and basic amenities are provided and compliance affidavit to this effect be filed by the Chief Secretary of the State of Bihar. All the concerned authorities are directed to seriously make efforts to comply with this order. After expiry of two weeks, there will be a joint inspection of these shelters and a report be submitted by this Court within a week thereafter.”

In accordance with the order dated 7.1.11, in the above matter, I write to inform you that the following persons from the petitioner’s side will take part in the joint inspection to be done of the homeless shelters in the state which is to commence from 21.1.11:

City	Petitioner’s representative - Name	Mobile	Email
Coordination all Cities	Rupesh Advisor to the SC commissioners in the Right to Food case	09431021035	koshish_pt@yahoo.com
Patna	Ranjan Kumar Singh	09835017165 / 0612-2571702	nidan.patna@rediffmail.com
Sasaram, Dheri, Gaya, Aurangabad	Santosh Upadhyaya (Community Action and Research Trust – Bandi Adhikar Andolan)	08986463504 / 09263370682	bandiadhikar@gmail.com
Patna	Babul Prasad	9431021505	babulprasad@gmail.com
Aara	Ramnath Thakur	9430269500

In case of any difficulty in contacting any of the above mentioned persons please contact:

Kavita Srivastava – 9351562965; Email – kavsriv@gmail.com

Indu Prakash Singh – 9911362925; Email – indu@igsss.net

Bipin K. Rai – 9999046469; Email – bipin@igsss.net

Sandhya – 9316718475; Email – sandhya@igsss.net

Since the matter is of utmost urgency and the joint inspection report is to be filed in the Supreme Court on 28.1.11 the joint inspection should not be delayed under any circumstance.

Sincerely

JYOTI MENDIRATTA

Advocate for Petitioner

Bihar

List of coordinator night-shelters

Representative of Advisor to the SC commissioners

City	Petitioner’s representative - Name	Mobile	Email
Coordination all Cities	Rupesh Advisor to the SC commissioners in the Right to Food case	09431021035	koshish_pt@yahoo.com
Patna	Sanjay Singh, Researcher Patna Office	8986277817
Patna	Ranjan Kumar Singh	09835017165 / 0612-2571702	nidan.patna@rediffmail.com
Sasaram, Dheri, Gaya, Aurangabad	Santosh Upadhyaya (Community Action and Research Trust – Bandi Adhikar Andolan)	08986463504 / 09263370682	bandiadhikar@gmail.com
Patna	Babul Prasad	9431021505	babulprasad@gmail.com

Aara	Ramnath Thakur	9430269500
Sasaram	Rajive Ranjan	9472595450
Dheri
Gaya	Father Jose Korea Upendra Ritwij	9431051659 9934068184 9934463192
Aurangabad
Muzaffarpur	Raju Singh Subhodh Pandey	916278466 9835221662
Darbhanga	Viswanath Mishra	9934205898
Chhapra	Manoj Mishra	9939055347
Purnea	Ramchandra Pandit	9835012018 9473130789
Bhagalpur	Uday kumar	9431873219
Munger	Abhay Kumar	9934914326
Saharsa	Ram Lagan Nirala	9471693432

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