Homeless caught between harsh winter and unsafe footpaths
Hindustan TimesAs the city grapples with a biting winter, several homeless struggle to find a warm place to stay especially at night and end up on footpaths. The tragedy in Wagholi on Monday morning where a dumper truck swerved off the road onto a footpath killing three individuals, including two toddlers, highlights the risky conditions of those living on footpaths. Don’t the poor have a right to live?” Pune Municipal Corporation runs only five night shelters across the city, with population of 44 lakh, in areas like Shivajinagar, Bopodi, Yerawada, and Pune Railway Station for the homeless and needy even as the Supreme Court directive states one shelter per one lakh population. Yogesh Sonawane, project manager at PMC’s night shelter near Pune Railway Station said, “As we have 22 and 28 beds for women and men respectively and all are occupied, we have to refer people to other shelters.
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