By Admin 
The harsh cold in Delhi has created havoc for the lives of the homeless. In the last 15 days, 44 homeless people have died due to cold, which is very worrying. ABP News team took stock of many night shelters in Delhi. The investigation revealed shockingly that these night shelters have become dens of drug addicts and thieves.
Poor and needy homeless people shy away from staying in these for fear of knives, blades, robbery and assault. The result is that many people are forced to spend the night under the open sky. In a special conversation with ABP News, social worker Bhavesh Piplia shared this serious information.
He told that according to the report of Delhi Police, 44 people have died due to cold in the last 15 days. These deaths are exposing government negligence.
Women living in the night shelter under the Nizamuddin flyover said that lizards are found inside the food, hair falls out and the food is not served properly. They are living here under compulsion with their children. They are living under compulsion because it is cold outside so that the children do not fall ill. Here, wind blows from everywhere, cold rain occurs and water falls drop by drop from above, all the blankets get wet. Here only cleaning is done once in a while and that too only with a broom, there is no cleaning here, we have to clean with our hands.
I am forced to sleep outside
More than half of the people are sleeping outside, there is no cleanliness, food and drinks are not available on time, watered tea is available. How were we afraid because there is knife fighting here, someone’s pockets are cut, someone’s money is stolen, someone’s phone is stolen, even blankets are stolen, hence under compulsion many people have to sleep outside, our husbands do not sleep due to theft or because of fear, there is fear that someone is stabbed with a blade, someone is stabbed and there is no guard here.
There is no security for women here, there is neither electricity nor water. A man was entering our tent at night, so we told the guard, then he closed the tent. The guard comes at night, sleeps and leaves in the morning. Rekha Gupta should come here and see.
people sleeping outside leaving night shelters
The man who has left the night shelter and is sleeping outside, while talking to ABP News, said that drug addicts come there, hence I will not go inside the night shelter at all, I will sleep outside but will not go inside. I have gone inside but did not sleep. The knife and blade are stolen. We come back after earning two paise and kill. If there is safety then we will definitely go. What will happen if someone hits you with a blade?
People living in the night shelter located on Lodhi Road told that the belongings of 45 year old and 50 year old women were thrown in the night shelter near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Red Light. They were killed and the person doing it was a lady. Why was she killed? It is not known till now that she is not talking due to fear.
People angrily said that you tell me, is there anything visible inside it which the government is claiming? Do you see something inside it which is what the government is saying, which the government has published. A buzzer said that we do not sleep in night shelters, even the 10 rupees we earn are stolen. A woman named Anjali said that all the publicity that the government has given outside the night shelters is nothing like this and the blankets are also not clean. We blow our own blankets and the blankets are dirty.
no water in toilet
Along with this, other men who were standing there told that there is no water here, the toilets are dirty and neither medicines are available here nor there is light here nor doctors come here. We are happy with whatever we are getting, now even if we speak, then to whom should we speak? The government has shown in its propaganda that water and electricity are not all these facilities. The blankets given by the government have not been washed nor have the mattresses been washed since we arrived.
‘Convening people to stay in shelter homes’
How many problems are there in night shelters, how can they be fixed and how many people have lost their lives due to the harsh winter in Delhi? ABP News spoke to social worker Bhavesh Piplia, who has been working for night shelters and homeless people for the last several years. He told ABP News that the government should conduct conveyance so that more and more people reach the shelters. One reason for sleeping on the streets instead of shelter homes is that people get blankets and other good things on the streets. People who come to the streets and are sleeping on the streets are given blankets and food.
Bhavesh said that as per the figures of Delhi Police, currently 71 are being reflected on the website of Delhi Police, out of which 44 are such that there is any sign of injury, which means that there are 44 such people who have died due to cold. For the government, these are just statistics, it is the result of the failure of the government. It is shameful that so many deaths are occurring even after spending so much money.
As far as I feel, this picture may be generated, it does not match with the real thing, we continuously raise voice for this, it is so cold, it has become 44 degrees, hence on the 2nd of the month, an order was given that heaters will not be used but the government should think about how to provide facilities to the people. And now we will definitely take this issue to the government because if the people for whom the government has built night shelters are not coming to the night shelters, then the government should reduce this issue.