Delhi High Court asks DLSA to conduct recce of DUSIB night shelters

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has ordered an evaluation in the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) night shelters to know if there is any need to continue functioning hunger relief camps, including provision of dry ration to non-PDS beneficiaries and cooked food. 

A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad asked Delhi Legal Service Authority (DLSA) to examine an application filed by an NGO seeking to continue with food distribution. It said that the authority could take into account the stand of the government and conduct an independent recce before filling a status report. 

The court was hearing an application filed by NGO Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan, seeking direction to the Government of Delhi to resume the scheme of providing dry ration under the Mukhya Mantri Corona Sahayata Yojna or any other scheme. Sanjay Parikh, the senior advocate representing the NGO in the case, said that there was still a requirement for providing free cooked meals at hunger relief camps, ration to non-PDS beneficiaries and cooked food to those staying at the night shelters.