Be kind to the homeless this winter: LG Jung

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on Monday made an emotional appeal to Delhiites to help the city’s homeless by giving them clothes, saying that displaying “yeoman” kindness” was a rare opportunity in life.

Jung’s appeal came on a day which recorded coldest Dec 22 in the last five years. The minimum temperature dipped to 4.2 degrees Celsius. According to the Delhi government, there are nearly 60,000 homeless in the capital city itself, but NGOs estimate them to be over 150,000. Jung reminded the residents of the rising to occasions during bad times and said: “Delhi is a city, which has opened its heart to people in emergencies over centuries.”

He asked them to help the “poorest of the poor by providing them with succor, in the form of warm clothing and bedding material but to be donated only at the night shelters.” He said that not providing blankets to poor on streets as this would dissuade them from sleeping in open.