Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): District administration has changed the school timing considering cold wave in the city but Bhopal Municipal Corporation has not provided wooden logs for bonfire so far. BMC has taken plea of National Green Tribunal directive imposing a ban on bonfires to check air pollution in the city.

Now, protection from freezing winter has become a major challenge for homeless families spending nights under the sky in Bhopal. Many homeless people either take shelter on footpath, roadside, bus terminals, market corridors to keep them safe from the biting cold and bonfires are the best way for these families to battle the extreme cold conditions.

Earlier, to provide relief from biting cold, the civic body would light bonfires at public places like bus stands, railway stations

See Full Page