In the wake of wolf attacks, the Bahraich district administration has built shelter homes to protect the villagers from the menace. The district administration has converted the Panchayat Bhawan built earlier into a shelter home.
The Delhi High Court on Monday instructed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to transfer one of its nursing college and hostel buildings to the Social Welfare Department, a shelter home for mentally challenged people where 14 inmates recently died.
Expressing both urgency and disappointment, the Court instructed the Secretary to prioritise immediate action over procedural formalities and stressed that financial constraints should not be a barrier to addressing the critical issues.
Launching a scathing attack on Delhi Lieutenant General VK Saxena over deaths in Asha Kiran Shelter Home, Health Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the LG office is constantly lying and is trying to save the officers who committed corruption.
After visiting the shelter home, AAP MLA Kuldeep Kumar said, "We saw a lot of negligence inside. We interacted with the children. We demand that Delhi LG should take action against the officers involved in the matter."
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took suo motu cognisance of reports that 12 inmates died within one month between July 15 and July 31 at a Delhi government-run shelter home, Asha Kiran, for people with mental impairments in Rohini.
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], August 3: On July 31, a special moment unfolded at Shelter Home, an orphanage in Nashik, India. The compassionate enterprise Karishma Nx, along with a dedicated team of volunteers, brought joy and care to the children by providing backpacks and food on this war
Taking to its social media handle on X, the NCW posted, "The preliminary inquiry has uncovered numerous administrative lapses, including inadequate medical care, poor hygiene and sanitation, overcrowding, a lack of safe drinking water, contaminated food, and a lack of staff training."
Exposing severe lapses in administration and care over the deaths of women at Asha Kiran shelter home, Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal has said that it is a clear case of "criminal negligence".
The workers of All India Mahila Congress in Delhi started a protest against the Delhi government and demanded the resignation of Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi Marlena over the deaths at Asha Kiran shelter home on Friday.
The official report stated that a total of 25 deaths were recorded in February 2024, out of which 14 deaths occurred (Male-6, Female-8) in the shelter home in the month of July only.