New Delhi: As many as 28 inmates have died at Asha Kiran Shelter Home of Rohini Sector-1 of the capital Delhi since the beginning of this year, with 14 deaths in July alone.
Asha Kiran is a Delhi-government-run facility for the mentally challenged.
Amid uproar on these deaths and several questions being constantly raised on the shelter home and its management, the Dynamite News Team reached this shelter home to get the spot facts.
Big revelations on Dynamite News
The women staff members who have been working in the shelter home for many years have made many big revelations on the camera of Dynamite News and exposed the internal irregularities which show that these deaths have happened due to human and government negligence.
Chaos all around
The shelter home is still in a state of chaos. After the death of 14 inmates including a minor, there is stone silence all around. People passing by also look at the shelter home with suspicious eyes and move ahead.
Not enough food, eggs and milk stopped
In response to a question of Dynamite News, a female worker told that for the last few months, children were not being given a complete diet here. Eggs and milk were also stopped. The quality of food have deteriorated. In the hot weather, no measures are taken to provide relief to the children from the heat.
More inmates than capacity
The female attendants further said that many more people than the capacity have been kept in the shelter home without any adequate arrangements.
The 14 deaths in the shelter home have created a buzz in the Capital's political circles.
The BJP has said it will bring up the issue in the Lok Sabha, while the AAP has accused the Safforn Party of following a "dual model" of politics.
In the meantime, the Vidhan Sabha Petition Committee including four AAP MLAs, on Saturday, arrived at the shelter home to investigate the whole matter but were not first allowed to enter the shelter home by some staff members. It was only after police intervention that the Committee members could go inside.
