Free commute for shelter homes’ residents

With mercury falling in the federal capital, the management of shelter homes has launched a free shuttle service to facilitate daily wage earners for reaching the Panahgahs or shelter homes, located in the city’s outskirts.

“The service has been successfully running for a fortnight and won the trust of poor worker and labourERS for provision of transport from their place of work to their lodging, connecting hotspots of work and shelter homes in an effective manner,” Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Shelter Homes Naseem ur Rehman told the media here.

He said in a welcome gesture, Pakistan Baitul Mal had provided a wagon and bus to the shelter homes management that helped pass on the much-needed relief to the daily wage earners, who were forced to access those facilities that were located in suburban areas of the capital city such as Tarlai and Bara Kahu due to rush at inner city establishments.

Naseem said daily wage earners were being picked daily in evening from most-convenient work places such as Sabzi Mandi and Peshawar Mor and dropped at Tarlai and Bara Kahu Shelter homes to ensure that none of the worker would sleep under open sky in such harsh weather.

“It was done in line with the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan who has been strong proponent of providing all-out facilities to the downtrodden segment of the society,” he remarked.

He said the initiative would also help shift people form one shelter home to other for managing the spill over of daily wage earners at those facilities which are located on prime locations in the capital city.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 21^st, 2020.