Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday directed officials to conduct a survey of people living in miserable conditions in illegal slums in Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath says the people eligible for government housing will be identified in this survey in coordination with the urban development department, the development authority, the district administration and the police department. …
Transcending its duty of maintaining law and order, a police station in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad city has been holding English tutorials for children from slum areas on its premises. As part of a community policing programme, Pundalik Nagar police station has started English classes for children from nearby slums, for a period of 15 days, with the help of a teacher, …
They grew up in slums or on the streets, but now the programme’s graduates have degrees and are helping other children. “I chose to study social work, inspired by what the Door Step School does,” she says. DSS impacted my life forever by giving me a route out of poverty, and the milieu that I was thrust into.” ‘Let the …