DEHRADUN: In the case of demolition of leprosy sufferers’ shelter home in Haridwar-based Ganga Mata Kusht Ashram in 2017, the director common of well being division advised the excessive court docket on Tuesday that they have the price range approval of Rs 4.18 crore for the venture and the development of the brand new shelter home will start inside two months. Satisfied with the DG’s reply, the division bench of Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rakesh Thapliyal mounted October 31 as the following listening to date within the matter.
Dehradun-based Act Now Welfare Society has mentioned in its PIL that in the course of the President’s go to to Haridwar on November 17, 2017, the administration demolished the pucca homes of Ganga Mata Kusht Ashram, in order that the President couldn’t see them. “Since then, these lepers have been living in roadside huts in cold, rain and heat. The government has not yet made any arrangements for their stay,” mentioned the petitioner.
The district Justice of the Peace of Haridwar in his affidavit filed earlier than the HC on August 4, 2022, had categorically said that the mentioned leprosy shelter house was situated inside a distance of 200 metres of river Ganga and positioned pictures claiming that it was not a pucca building. Since no building may be allowed inside 200 metres of river Ganga, the HC in its 2022 order directed the state authorities to establish an alternate location the place the lepers may be resettled. Chief standing counsel CS Rawat mentioned that showing earlier than the court docket, DG well being mentioned district administration has admeasured 23.149 hectares of land to arrange a shelter house for leprosy sufferers. He mentioned that the federal government has accredited the DPR of Rs 4.18 crore ready by the Haridwar Roorkee Development Authority.