Homeless, destitute removed for PM visit
2 years, 1 month ago

Homeless, destitute removed for PM visit

Deccan Chronicle  

VISHAKHAPATNAM: Authorities in Visakhapatnam shifted 79 homeless destitute, 12 of them women, from roadsides to five night shelters run by NGOs affiliated to the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation on Friday in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public meeting on Saturday. Staff of GVMC’s Urban Community Development department scouted the five-kilometre stretch of road from Convent Junction at the railway station to Andhra University. They picked up the destitute living alongside the road and moved them to three night shelters in Dwarakanagar and two in Maharanipeta and Bhupesh Nagar. A UCD official told Deccan Chronicle that as the entire stretch of road is under a security cordon, the road dwellers had to be moved to a safer place.

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