Working with the Government to erect shelters for the homeless
The three sectors on which we work, with our people have been going though quite a tough time as they struggle each day for livelihood. Those who work on construction sites, have to struggle greatly as they do not get work every day and thus their families experience hunger. It is becoming a practice that when sand mining is banned, work on construction sites comes to a standstill and there is hardly any alternative.
To address these issues related to the construction workers, the Minister for Labor was invited to listen to the pleas and the stories of the workers. Many of the schemes are not being implemented and people struggle with enhancing their lives. It was an opportunity to familiarize the Minister about the schemes that need to be implemented. Another issue was addressed was the department being understaffed, as a result the online forms were not being entered and rights of the workers were being deprived.
The atrocities being meted out by the PMC workers of confiscating the goods of the vendors, levying heavy fines on them, destroying their carts were also taken up. People struggle to get their carts and goods and in a split second all of this is destroyed. Now a new legislation is being passed where their carts cannot be returned even after paying their fine.
In spite of the fact many of our people’s name have featured it he list for housing under the PMAY, the eviction of their huts with bulldozers, just hurts the people. There are many laws in favor of the people but on one pretext or the other administrations heartlessly destroy their huts. To construct a single hut it costs something not less than 15000/-. In a split second the bulldozer razes these huts to the ground.