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Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation plans to increase capacity of night shelters
The mercury level in the State Capital is presently around 16 to 18 degree Celsius during night which is expected to fall further after two days, IMD officials said.
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BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to increase the bed capacity of the social equity centre here from existing 50 to 100 to provide shelter to more number of urban homeless during winter nights.
A decision to this effect was taken during a meeting chaired by Municipal Commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhary. It was also decided to set up another 50-bed transit shelter close to the social equity centre and develop other eight shelters for urban homeless (SUHs) managed privately.