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Following directions issued by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has acceptable up six impermanent structure homes to accommodate 395 stateless radical identified during a thrust conducted successful the metropolis earlier this month.
The substance pertains to directions issued by a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Ravi Cheemalapati portion proceeding a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) connected December 24, 2025. The Bench rapped the authorities for deficiency of shelters successful the State to accommodate the stateless and directed the VMC to behaviour a thrust instantly to place and displacement destitute radical to structure homes.
A three-member team, including an authoritative from the VMC and Mission for Elimination of Poverty successful Municipal Areas (MEPMA) and a policeman, conducted the drive, during which 395 stateless radical were identified.
Currently, Vijayawada has 4 structure homes, 3 having a capableness of 100 each and 1 having a capableness of 50, and each of them are filled to capacity. The six caller impermanent shelters tin accommodate 450 people, said P. Venkata Narayana, Project Director, Urban Communtiy Development, VMC. He added that a assembly support is required for mounting up of imperishable structure homes, and aniticpating a delay, impermanent ones person been acceptable up for the moment.
They are coming adjacent the assemblage halls successful Ayodhya Nagar, Jakkampudi and Seethannapeta and adjacent the V.M. Ranga Mango market.
Meanwhile, officials from MEPMA, successful relation with 66 NGOs, identified 3,150 stateless radical crossed the State. According to them, 646 radical of those identified autumn successful the VMC limits and 252 successful Visakhapatnam. The past specified survey was conducted successful 2017.
Talking astir the challenges progressive successful shifting radical to the structure homes, R. Adinarayana, State Mission Manager, MEPMA, said due to the fact that the radical are utilized to receiving food, h2o bottles and different eatables from passersby, they amusement reluctance successful relocating to the structure homes. Some of those recovered connected footpaths are suffering from cause and intoxicant addictions, and since smoking oregon drinking is not allowed successful structure homes, galore are unwilling to come, the authoritative added.
