Talk:Homelessness in India

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Need More Information

This page seems incomplete. It also has some grammatical errors. Here are a few changes I propose. Let me know what you think!

• Article doesn't contain any statistics on demographics of homelessness such as social class, age groups, educational and occupational levels, and income levels.
• Introduction doesn't contain many statistics on the situation of homelessness in India.
• There is a lack of information on the history and the causes from its beginnings.
• There is a lack of discussion on the government's current initiatives to counter homelessness.
• There is less detail on the sections about the situation in slums today. What are the conditions there? How many people on average live in each slum?
• I would add a section on Problems Faced by Homeless People. What sorts of day to day issues do they face? What stigmas do they face?
• I would discuss the health situation of the homeless and sanitation of their nighttime sleeping areas.
• Violence can also be discussed against the homeless.
• NGOs and other non-profits initiatives should be added as well.
• I would also expand on the Problems section where it discusses a few causes to explore them more in depth and detail.

Here is a list of sources I can use.

1. Urban homeless shelters in India: Miseries untold and promises unmet by Geetika Goel, Piyali Ghosh, Mohit Kumar Ojha and Akanksha Shukla- peer reviewed scholarly article. This article discusses urban homeless shelters that are in place in India. It critiques them and discusses their faults in five different categories. It focusses on homeless shelters mandated by the government, which can play a huge role in the government's initiative against homelessness section in this wikipedia page.
2. Mental Health, mental illness, and human rights in India and elsewhere: What are we aiming for? by Brendan D. Kelly- scholarly peer reviewed article. This article describes the human rights of Indian citizens by law. This will fit in greatly with the government and causes of homelessness sections in my article. It will help shed light on the rights every citizen deserves in terms of avoiding homelessness and good sanitary water, etc. It will add a different angle on the unfairness of homelessness in India.
3. The impact of drop-in centres on the health of street boys in New Delhi: An interpretive descriptive study by Ronita Nath, Wendy Sword, Kathy Georgiades, Parminder Raina and Harry Shannon- peer reviewed scholarly article. This article helps shed a lot of light on the view of homelessness from those homeless themselves. For example, it discusses how children find themselves still living on the streets when shelters provide homes because that is what they are used to. Furthermore, it talks about the benefits of centers which can be added to the current movements section on assisting the homeless.

Anikakalra (talk) 06:35, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

References

Adding to the Page

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I am adding some information as discussed above to the "Intro" section of this page. I will be deleting the current information as my work contains this info. Let me know what you think!

Next, I will be adding to the 'street children' section of this page. A lot of this information is focussed on abuse of street children. I feel this would be more valuable on a page specifically about street children only as opposed to the issue of homelessness overall. This page, in my opinion, should be about homelessness and the different populations involved. Thus, the page Street children in India in the 'Abuse' section should contain this information on abuse as opposed to this homelessness page. Here is the information on the page:

'According to UNICEF, violence against children in India include neglect, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and exploitation. The rate of child abuse increased to nearly 8000 in 2007.[19] An Indian government study in 2007 stated that two out of every three children in India were physically abused and that 50% of the nearly 12,000 studied children testified one or more forms of sexual abuse.[20] This increase is probably due to increased awareness and reporting of abuse. Other studies include that 7,200 children, including infants, are raped every year in India, and the government refuses to comment on these serial child abuses that continue. Many child activists believe that cases go unreported.[21]

I will be moving it to the Street children in India page. Look at Talk:Street children in India for more information.

Next, I would like to add new sections titled 'Efforts to assist' and add the subsections 'Non-governmental services' as well as 'governmental services' to the page.

I am also re-organizing the page. I renamed the 'problems' section to 'causes' which is more appropriate. I moved the 'summary' section to the introduction and deleted some information that was backed up by a bad source/ was quoted directly.

Anikakalra (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:49, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Added to the Page 2

Hi all,
For my last few edits I added information the 'street children' section. Furthermore, I created the 'governmental services' section and added info there. Finally, I moved some info from the 'A growing concern' section to the intro.
Hope you like the changes!
Anikakalra (talk)