The Supreme Court has expressed concern over non-utilisation of funds for providing shelters to the urban homeless and non-constitution of committees for the purpose in the urban local bodies of West Bengal, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. <br/><br/>Seeking a roadmap from these states on how they plan to provide such shelters, the apex court has observed that the executive committees to oversee the implementation of the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) have not been constituted by most of the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) in the states.<br/><br/><br/>A bench of Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta directed that a senior officer dealing with the NULM should file an affidavit within two weeks and made it clear that no extension of time will be granted. The bench noted that no information was available with regard to the status of executive committee in the ULBs in Haryana in the status report filed by the Centre.<br/><br/> It also noted that as far as the state of West Bengal is concerned, only six committees have been constituted out of 125 ULBs and as far as the state of UP is concerned, only 74 committees have been constituted out of 130 ULBs.
News On AIR | October 22, 2017 2:29 PM
Supreme Court concerned over non-utilisation of funds for urban shelter