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NEW DELHI, OCT. 15. Ashray Adhikar Abhiyan, a non-government organisation that is spearheading the fight of destitute women and street children facing eviction from the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC)'s Palika Hostel in the Capital, today said it along with other NGOs would launch protests and hold rallies to prevent these people from becoming shelter-less yet again. Charging the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre, the Sheila Dikshit Government in Delhi and the "elite civic body" NDMC with playing with the lives of over 100 innocent and poor women and their children by trying to evict them from Palika Hostel where they have been living for the past 10 months, the NGO's director, Paramjeet Kaur, said these poor had started living in dignity but political leaders and bureaucrats were denying them their basic human rights. "Today also NDMC employees and police personnel had come to Palika Hostel to get them evicted. But the move was strongly resisted. We will not allow this to happen and build a public movement against this campaign," she said, and rejected the government proposal to shift these homeless to Nirmal Chaya or Sewa Kutir which "were like jails without any basic amenities''. "We have approached the President, A P J Abdul Kalam; the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh; the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi; the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit; the National Human Rights Commission and the National Commission for Women, but nobody is ready to intervene and take up the cause of the homeless. All their assurances and policies are confined only to paper," she alleged. Ms. Kaur said the NDMC had signed an agreement with them and three other voluntary organisations in 2002 to start a shelter-home in the three-storey building in Gole Market.
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