Chairman Mr. Suyog Mishra gave instructions in the meeting of the State Level Shelter Monitoring Committee
Work towards providing financial assistance from CSR, Destitute Fund and other institutions as well.
Raipur, 17 August 2023
In order to have adequate arrangements in the shelters for the urban homeless, the capacity of the shelters will be determined accordingly by surveying the updated statistics of the urban homeless in the municipal corporations. Along with this, special attention will be given to the location in the identification of shelters. Shelters will be started at such places which are near to stations, bus stands, labor movement places. These instructions were given by the chairman of the committee Mr. Suyog Kumar Mishra in the meeting organized at the New Circuit House in the capital of the State Level Shelter Monitoring Committee. In the meeting, Mr. Mishra said that the shelter should be useful for the urban homeless coming here, basic infrastructure and necessary facilities should be available in it and its monitoring should be done from time to time.
Mr. Mishra said that adequate funding is also very important for the shelters so that they can ensure necessary facilities for the homeless coming here. For this, help can be taken from CSR and Destitute Fund. Many religious institutions, business organizations and chambers of commerce are willing to help the urban homeless. By contacting them, help can be taken for the facilities provided to the shelters. With such funding useful activities can start here. Creative activities can also be done in the shelters to help create a better environment here.
Mr. Mishra said that location is very important in the construction of shelters. Locations which are near crowded places are more useful and also serve the purpose of shelter. Along with this, there should be wide publicity of the shelter so that people are aware of it.
In the meeting, the CEO of the State Urban Development Agency Mr. Saumil Ranjan Choubey said that the joint directors should regularly monitor the shelters. He informed about the completion of the shelter building construction work in Khairagarh by the first week of next September and informed that the tender process for the construction of the shelter building near the bus stand, Bhatapara and Municipal Council office Ratanpur has been completed. Is.
In the meeting of the State Level Shelter Monitoring Committee, the committee was informed about the action taken in compliance of the instructions given earlier. It may be noted that under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihood Mission, 51 shelters have been approved in the state, out of which 47 shelters are currently operational and the construction work of 1 shelter is in the final stage.
In the meeting, Commissioner of Municipal Corporation, Dhamtari and Birgaon and representatives of Municipal Corporation, Raipur, Bhilai and Bilaspur and Additional Chief Executive Officer Ms. Suryakiran Tiwari, Deputy Chief Executive Officer Mr. Rajendra Kumar Dohre, Project Officer Mrs. Jagruti Sahu and Municipal Council Officers of Bhatapara, Ratanpur and Khairagarh were present.
