Tiruppur Corporation is looking forward to imparting skill-training on a regular basis to inmates of the three night shelters it operates with the help of non-government organisations. Each shelter has a capacity to accommodate 50 to 60 inmates.
The civic body, at periodic intervals, identifies alms-seekers and abandoned elders in the bus stands and accommodates them in the night shelters. In a recent operation, a group of abandoned people, some of them with mental disabilities, were rescued and accommodated in the night shelters after a medical test at the Government Medical College Hospital, Tiruppur.
The skill-training initiative will be given a thrust at these shelters such that people realise their economic worth and self-respect, Corporation Commissioner Pavankumar G. Giriyappanavar said.
One group of inmates is already successful in generating revenue through running an eatery, after undergoing training, he said.
