Kashi ensures needy, homeless spend warm nights at shelters

The district magistrate of Varanasi has instructed officials to ensure cleanliness and to make necessary arrangements for staying at night shelters for families and children. The DM also inspected night shelters in the Maidagin and Andhrapul areas and directed officials to ensure better cleanliness and to spray antilarvae to prevent mosquitoes. He also directed municipal officials to make arrangements for a separate stay for the family and the children in the night shelters. He had inspected permanent night shelters in Alaipur Golgadda and Rajghat areas and temporary night shelters at Townhall Beniabagh and Dashashwamedh on December 21. He also distributed blankets to the people living in Rajghat night shelter and the people living on the roadside. He instructed the zonal officers of the Varanasi Municipal Corporation that the poor people living in night shelters should not face any kind of trouble besides the poor living on the roads should be shifted to night shelters to protect them from the cold. He also directed the officials to make fire protection arrangements in temporary night shelters.