BMC Commissioner seeks to provide temporary shelters for the homeless labourers.

BMC commissioner Praveen Pardeshi has instructed building proposals department officials to locate recently built unoccupied buildings in their regions so that they can act as temporary shelters for homeless labourers and other emergencies.

Civic officials said there were several such buildings in the city, so it was necessary to use the first few floors of such buildings to provide shelter for labourers.

With no way of getting back to their hometowns, those migrants remained on the roads. Civic officials said the labourers would be relocated to these temporary shelters and arrange food for them.

A civic official also stated that these buildings can be used in an emergency to provide isolation facilities for the impacted slum pockets.

The BMC is seeking to track and shift homeless migrants to temporary shelters. Civic officials said they were taking the assistance of ward-level officials to track the migrants, while NGOs were roped into arranging packets of food. Meanwhile, the BMC received 39 ventilators from Tata AutoComp, one lakh gloves from Shiv Sena minister Aaditya Thackeray, and protective gear and other material from NGOs, charitable trusts, and builders.