The 2010 Supreme Court Orders on shelters direct governments to link homeless people to basic services and social protection programs such as community kitchens and subsidized food available under the Antodaya Anna Yojana programs.
Numerous urban welfare programs for the urban poor have existed for years: Swarna Jayanti Rozgar for fair wages and safe work; the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for basic services such as water, sanitation and infrastructure; the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) for rental housing; and the Public Food Distribution System - a legal right under the National Food Security Act (2013) - for nutrition and food security programs.
Homeless people often fail to gain access to these services because they lack identification officially required by these policies. On a broader level, the 2012 Hashim Committee acknowledged that the government's unsystematic methods of identifying the urban poor and a lack of undersanding of their conditions of poverty also play a role. IHRN curates research on the challenges homeless people face in accessing government programmes and basic services to shed light on these gaps.
Author(s): Jayati Ghosh, Prabhat Patnaik & Harsh Mander
Author(s): Aashti Salman & Balu Sunilraj
Author(s): Ashwin Parulkar & Mukta Naik
Title: The Challenges of Managing a Hunger Crisis Amidst a Public Health Emergency
Publication: The Wire
Publication Date: March 29, 2020
Author(s): Ashwin Parulkar & Mukta Naik
Title: A Crisis of Hunger: a ground report on the repercussions of COVID-19 related lockdown on Delhi's vulnerable populations
Publication: Centre for Policy Research
Publication Date: March 2020
Author(s): Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS) & Shahari Adhikar Manch - Begharon ke Sath (SAM-BKS)
Publication: (this is a PPT of a survey conducted by IGSSS & SAM-BKS)
Publication date: June 11, 2018
Author: Tarique Mohammad
Title: Begging: A Preferred Way of Living or Sheer Necessity to Survive
Publication: Koshish-Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Publication date: June 2016
Author: Koshish-Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Title: Framework for the Restoration of Persons in Institutions and Shelter Homes
Publication: Koshish-Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Publication date: June 2016
Author: Leilani Farha
Author: Motilal Mahamallik
Title: Surviving in the Street: A Note on a Study of the Urban Homeless in Jaipur, Rajasthan
Publication: Institute of Development Studies Jaipur Working Paper
Publication date: April 2016
Authors: Manish K. Jha, Pushpendra, Mouleshri Vyas, Ritambhara Hebbar, Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Simpreet Singh
Author: Vandana Prasad
Title: Barriers of Accessing Health Care among Adult Street Dwellers in Delhi
Publication: School of Public Health, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of Western Cape (Masters Thesis)
Date of Publication: November 2011
Author's Abstract
Urban health policy has
Author(s): Vandana Prasad, Soibam Haripriya and Smita Jacob
Title: Food Security of the Homeless in Delhi
Publication: Public Health Resource Network (PHRN) and Centre for Equity Studies (CES) Working Paper
Date of Publication: April 2010
Authors' Abstract
A conservative estimate of one per cent of
Authors: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Delhi Government
Author: Meena Mathur
Title: Socialisation of Street Children in India: A Socio-economic Profile
Publication: Psychology and Developing Societies
Publication Date: 2009
Citation: Mathur, Meena. ‘Socialisation of Street Children in India: A Socio-economic Profile.’ Psychology
Author(s): Meena Mathur, Prachi Rathore and Monika Mathur
Title: Incidence and Intensity of Abuse in Street Children in India
Publication: Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal
Publication Date: December 2009
Citation: Mathur, Meena; Rathore, Prachi; Mathur, Monika. ‘Incidence and Intensity
Author: Aashray Adhikar Abhyiyan
Title: The Capital’s Homeless – A Preliminary Study
Publication: Aashray Adhikar Abhyian
Publication Date: 2001
Author: Veronique Dupont
Author: Corporation of Chennai
Title: Standard Operating Procedure for Institutionalising Basic Services for the Urban Homeless
Publication: Corporation of Chennai
Publication Date: March 3, 2014