Urban News

  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
India Newspapers

One more shelter in city for urban homeless

Monday, 25 July 2016 10:38 administrator
Print PDF

The Hindu       25.07.2016

One more shelter in city for urban homeless

 

  • The night shelter was inaugurated by district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai at Bunder in Mangaluru on Sunday. —Photo: H.S. Manjunath
    The night shelter was inaugurated by district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai at Bunder in Mangaluru on Sunday. —Photo: H.S. Manjunath

The Mangaluru City Corporation has built one more free shelter for the urban homeless.

Minister in-charge of Dakshina Kannada, B. Ramanath Rai, inaugurated the facility, the third one in the city, at Kasba Bazar building at Bunder on Sunday. It can accommodate 75 persons.

With this, the civic body has created shelters to house 145 people at three locations.

Earlier, it had created a facility at Urwa Community Hall to accommodate 50 people and at a building owned by the Mangaluru City Corporation building near Sharavu Mahaganapathi temple to house 20 people.

Facilities

Addressing presspersons after inaugurating the facility, Mr. Rai said that the shelter at Bunder has dormitory for 36 men, including four for men with disabilities, and dormitory for 20 women, including four for women with disabilities.

In addition to it, it has a dormitory room to accommodate 19 family members. The shelter has a kitchen, toilet facilities, rooms for warden and conducting medical tests.

The Minister said that the facility at Bunder was on the ground floor.

The corporation would also use the first floor of the same building to create shelter for another 105 persons soon.

Cost

The creation of facilities on the ground and first floors would cost about Rs. 1 crore.

As per government norms, city corporations would have to create shelters for urban homeless for 50 persons per each one lakh population.

As per the 2011 census the population of Mangaluru city stood at 4.88 lakh.

Criteria

Accordingly, the city now has the shelter to meet the criteria of about three lakh people as it has shelters for 145 persons. Creating the facility for another 105 persons would meet the requirement of night shelters based on population in the city.

Harinath, Mayor; B.A. Mohiuddin Bava, MLA; Mangaluru City North; J.R. Lobo, MLA, Mangaluru City South; Ivan D’Souza, MLC, were present.

 

‘Construct houses for slum-dwellers’

Monday, 25 July 2016 10:34 administrator
Print PDF

The Hindu         25.07.2016 

‘Construct houses for slum-dwellers’

K. Rajanna, president of the district unit of Slum Janandholan Karnataka, has demanded that the authorities take steps to construct houses for slum-dwellers by demolishing their huts.

Speaking to presspersons here on Sunday, he said that a majority of slum areas in Chitradurga were located on government land and only three slums were on private land. “Instead of planning to construct G-1 and G-2 houses for slum dwellers, the authorities should take steps to construct independent houses in places where they were staying now. The authorities should also provide facilities to these houses including safe drinking water, electricity and drainage and also grant them property rights.

The Deputy Commissioner should look after the survey of slum areas in the district and the district administration should take steps to provide government land for construction of houses to slum areas that are on private land, he added.

Authorities told to demolish huts and build independent houses there

 

Bedi visits Kurumbapet dumpyard

Monday, 25 July 2016 09:35 administrator
Print PDF

The Hindu        25.07.2016 

Bedi visits Kurumbapet dumpyard

She instructs officials to ensure waste is collected and disposed of in a proper manner

STREAMLINING PROCESSES:Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi talks to officials at the garbage dumping yard at Kurumbapet in Puducherry on Sunday.— Photo: Special Arrangement
STREAMLINING PROCESSES:Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi talks to officials at the garbage dumping yard at Kurumbapet in Puducherry on Sunday.— Photo: Special Arrangement

Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on Sunday visited the dumpyard at Kurumbapet where over 500 tonnes of municipal solid waste collected from across the Puducherry urban area deposited every day.

On finding un-segregated waste dumped in the yard, Ms. Bedi instructed the officials to ensure that the contractor collected the segregated waste from the public and disposed of in a proper manner in the yard.

Ms. Bedi asked the officials to create a Gaushala (cow shelter) so that bio-degradable waste would be utilised. Oulgaret Municipal Commissioner M.S. Ramesh explained the measures taken by administration at the dumpyard to streamline waste management.

The officials also explained that a bore-well would be drilled and high-mast lights erected besides raising the compound-wall and establishing a weigh-bridge.

Mr. Ramesh also explained to the Lieutenant Governor that the municipal administration has plans to allow the collectors of plastic waste inside the dumpyard as they help in better maintenance.

 
More Articles...


Page 122 of 4907