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PANAJI
The Goa government has constituted an independent impartial committee to monitor a scheme to provide permanent shelters to the homeless in state’s cities and towns. It is being under a central government’s initiative.
Headed by the Chief Secretary, the committee includes two non-official members including Director of the Goa Catholic Church’s charitable arm ‘Caritas’ Fr Maverick Fernandes and another civil society member Amit Narkar.
The panel also includes the Urban Development Secretary as well as the Director of Municipal Administration and the director of the Provedoria.
It is tasked with addressing the issues of the urban homeless and submit a report to the State government.
Sources in the State administration said, the “impartial panel” has been constituted on the directions of the Union government’s Urban Development ministry following the latter’s assurance to the Supreme Court that it will address the requirement to provide shelter to millions of homeless
Urban poor.
