These days night temperatures all across North India are hovering around ZERO degree in many cities
For want of sufficient Night Shelters, poor homeless people are forced to sleep on footpaths , without a roof / walls to stop the freezing winds
Most of them, including children, do not even have warm clothes or blankets to cover them
Dozens ( mostly old - sick - children ) are dying due to bitter cold
After 75 years of freedom ( from the British ), we ,as a society, miserably failed to provide them freedom from bitter cold. We just do not have enough SHELTER HOMES
There is no point in engaging in a BLAME GAME. No amount of " trying to fix the blame " can build thousands of Night Shelters in a few days ( - even as , 3 years ago, the Chinese built several 1,000 bed COVID hospitals, within 7 days ! )
Instead of blaming this Govt or that Govt / this party or that party, what is needed is a CONSRUCTIVE SOLUTION which can be implemented quickly
MY SUGGESTION :
Under Govt's Vehicle Scrapping Policy, thousands of old ( > 15 years ) PUBLIC TRANSPORT BUSES are about to get " scrapped " ( to be replaced by Electric Buses )
Let the Authorities remove the seats from these buses and convert these into MOBILE NIGHT SHELTERS , to be parked where poor homeless persons are occupying footpaths
If a reader agrees, let him / her forward this message to all contacts
Regards,
hemen parekh
hcp@RecruitGuru.com / www.hemenparekh.in / 29 Dec 2022
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