Rawalpindi: Over 6350 homeless people were provided free accommodation facility in Raja Bazaar Shelter Home inaugurated here in December.According to Focal person, Shelter Home/Sub-Registrar and Cantonment Magistrate, Hafiz Muhammad Imran, the Punjab government on the directive of Prime Minister Imran Khan established a Shelter Home here to provide proper accommodation facility to the homeless and poor citizens.He said initially arrangements were made for 80 persons in the basement of Raja Bazar Parking Plaza, however, the facility had been enhanced for 125 persons. The basement was being used as a Shelter Home temporarily while a proper shelter home’s building would be constructed after pointing out a suitable place for the purpose, he added.To a question he said, the basement of the parking plaza was finalized as the government wanted to start the Shelter Home immediately to provide shelter to people in the harsh winter.‘The project is aimed at restoring the self-respect of those who spend night under the open sky,’ he said and added that it was also aimed at broadening the circle of the state’s social responsibility.To another question, he informed that expenditures of the shelter home were being borne through donations by philanthropists. Prime Minister Imran Khan had directed the Punjab government to establish a shelter home in Rawalpindi so the people who sleep in the open could spend the night at safe place during the harsh winter and could be provided three times meals, he said.
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