Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma visited the winter shelter homes set up near Gandhinagar Railway Station here on Thursday night to take stock of the arrangements.
According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the minimum temperature in Delhi has plummeted to 12 degrees Celsius. A thin layer of fog enveloped the national capital, Delhi, on Sunday.
On Tuesday, the maximum temperature in Delhi was recorded at 21 degrees Celsius, while the minimum temperature settled at 9 degrees Celsius, intensifying the need for night shelters, where homeless people found relief from the biting cold.
As the cold wave grips the national capital, some people are forced to take refuge in night shelters in search of food, shelter and some warmth to help them sustain through the chilling night.
Visuals from the Jama Masjid area, AIIMS Delhi area and other areas showed people wearing thick blankets and trying to get some sleep in the cold conditions.
Delhi on Wednesday experienced further dip in the temperature and a thin layer of fog covered parts of the city. At 5.30 am, 5.6 degrees Celsius was recorded at the city.
As minimum temperature dips to single digits in Northern plains, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday inaugurated and inspected some of the night shelters and distributed blankets and food to the needy people in Gorakhpur along with local MP Ravi Kishan.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami distributed blankets to the destitute and homeless people, people living in slums at ISBT, Dehradun late on Tuesday evening to protect them from the cold, said a statement from CMO.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has directed all the District Magistrates to provide adequate facilities in the night shelters as well as distribute quilts and blankets to the needy people, following a warning from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) regarding a drop i