{"id":85141,"date":"2016-11-11T21:54:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=85141"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T17:10:42","slug":"committee-to-be-constituted-to-ensure-shelter-to-homeless-persons-in-urban-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2016\/11\/11\/committee-to-be-constituted-to-ensure-shelter-to-homeless-persons-in-urban-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee to be constituted to ensure shelter to homeless persons in urban areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court<\/strong>: In the writ petition concerning the right to shelter of homeless persons in urban areas, the 3-judge bench of T.S. Thakur, Cj and Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud and L. Nageswara Rao, JJ noticed that in spite of the availability of funds and a clear mechanism through which to disburse them, there is an extremely unsatisfactory state of affairs on the ground despite the continuous monitoring of the matter by the Court.<\/p>\n

Considering the fact that winter is approaching and enough has not been done for protection of many homeless in the\u00a0towns\/cities, the Court said that a Committee should be constituted which will have Mr. Justice Kailash Gambhir, retired Judge, High Court of Delhi as its Chairman with an officer of the Joint Secretary cadre from the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation to be deputed by the Union of India and an officer, serving or retired, from the Delhi Judicial Service to be nominated by the Chief Justice of the High Court of Delhi in consultation with the Chairperson of the Committee as Members. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation shall be the Nodal Ministry to provide all logistical support to the Committee.<\/p>\n

The role of the Committee as defined by the Court is as follows:<\/p>\n