NEW DELHI: In a densely packed neighbourhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and peas from ...
NEW DELHI: In a densely packed neighbourhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and peas from a vat in the back of a van.
Most of the estimated 4 million plus homeless people in India have had no way of earning a living since the lockdown began on Mar 25. With streets deserted, even begging is not an option.Many wander aimlessly, some find refuge at homeless shelters where ranks of people sleep beside each other. "You cannot impose such drastic measures on a population the size of India all of a sudden," said Shivani Chaudhry, executive director of Housing and Land Rights Network, a non-profit group that works with the homeless.
Some states are now scrambling to put the homeless in tents in parks, or at schools and other vacant spaces. "How do we do social distancing? If we separate them we will have to let many of them go," said a manager at one shelter with a capacity of 500 people. Daily wage workers and homeless people wait for food outside a government-run night shelter during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease , in New Delhi, India, March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Danish SiddiquiDoctors and health experts say the homeless are among the most at risk from the virus as many already suffer from illnesses such as tuberculosis, and their morbidity rates are higher than for the general population.
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