CHENNAI: The town corporation has identified just about nine,000 homeless people in Chennai thru a recent third-party survey and created an app to map them. Officials within the civic frame mentioned the streetwise and division-wise mapping of the homeless will assist identify websites for extra shelters.
On a mobile app that is these days being improvised, clusters of homeless were mapped using blue markers while shelters in operation were mapped with pink markers. The app shall be made public thru a link on the corporation’s web page.
“The blue marker is used to in particular mark a homeless circle of relatives or a person. Clicking it'll point out the street, ward and zone where the homeless particular person or circle of relatives has been noticed,” mentioned an authentic.
The quantity identified within the street-to-street survery which spanned a month and a half is almost thrice the three,547 computed by means of the civic frame last year.
Senior corporation officers mentioned the former survey identified a smaller quantity as there were some loopholes in how it was performed.
Among the 15 zones within the town, Teynampet (zone nine) was found to have the biggest number of homeless within the town. Based on the result of the survey, 12 new shelters shall be built.
Five shall be built straight away — three in Teynampet zone, and one each and every in Royapuram and Tondiarpet zones, mentioned officers. As according to the National Urban Livelihoods Mission guidelines for the establishment of shelters, there should be one group refuge for each one lakh of urban population.
The corporation, then again, operates 36 shelters and 10 special shelters around the town, with the latter being at staterun hospitals, which falls wanting the benchmark.
“If we go by means of [the benchmark], we would possibly end up building shelters without takers. It is essential to go by means of the survey and assess which places have top numbers of homeless people,” an authentic instructed TOI.
On a mobile app that is these days being improvised, clusters of homeless were mapped using blue markers while shelters in operation were mapped with pink markers. The app shall be made public thru a link on the corporation’s web page.
“The blue marker is used to in particular mark a homeless circle of relatives or a person. Clicking it'll point out the street, ward and zone where the homeless particular person or circle of relatives has been noticed,” mentioned an authentic.
The quantity identified within the street-to-street survery which spanned a month and a half is almost thrice the three,547 computed by means of the civic frame last year.
Senior corporation officers mentioned the former survey identified a smaller quantity as there were some loopholes in how it was performed.
Among the 15 zones within the town, Teynampet (zone nine) was found to have the biggest number of homeless within the town. Based on the result of the survey, 12 new shelters shall be built.
Five shall be built straight away — three in Teynampet zone, and one each and every in Royapuram and Tondiarpet zones, mentioned officers. As according to the National Urban Livelihoods Mission guidelines for the establishment of shelters, there should be one group refuge for each one lakh of urban population.
The corporation, then again, operates 36 shelters and 10 special shelters around the town, with the latter being at staterun hospitals, which falls wanting the benchmark.
“If we go by means of [the benchmark], we would possibly end up building shelters without takers. It is essential to go by means of the survey and assess which places have top numbers of homeless people,” an authentic instructed TOI.
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