Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta embraces an elderly woman while inaugurating a free Mega Health Check-up Camp under the 'Seva Sankalp Abhiyan' at the Ayurvedic Hospital in Haiderpur. (@CMODelhi/X via PTI Photo)

Rekha Gupta launches health camp in north Delhi, promises homes and school

Rekha Gupta launched a mega health camp in Haiderpur and announced housing, school and health projects. The outreach paired welfare promises with an assurance that local jhuggis will not be demolished.

by · India Today

In Short

  • Seva Sankalp Abhiyan camp offers health screenings for local residents
  • CM promises no jhuggis will be demolished amid redevelopment plans
  • New health, community centre and Nirog Dham projects planned locally

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday launched a mega health check-up camp in Haiderpur and announced plans for a new school and health facilities in the area. The camp was organised under the government’s 'Seva Sankalp Abhiyan'.

During the programme, Gupta also met slum residents and said not a single 'jhuggi' in the area would be demolished. She said the government was working to provide better housing to people who have been living in difficult conditions for years.

Gupta said the tender process for the first phase of housing construction for residents of jhuggis in AU Block and AO Block in Haiderpur has already started.

She said suitable sites around these areas would be identified and housing would be built there. In the second phase, she said, the jhuggis around the Ayurvedic Hospital area would be included, and land near the locality was being looked at so that residents could be given better housing close to where they currently live.

The chief minister said there had long been a need for a large school up to Class 12 in Haiderpur, and added that nearly 5,000 square yards of land has been made available for the project.

She also said a tender has been issued for a new community centre in the area. A new Ayushman Arogya Mandir health centre has also been proposed for the locality.

She added that a 'Nirog Dham' would also be developed in the area, where efforts would be made to provide healthcare facilities based on both Ayurvedic and allopathic systems.

Overall, Gupta used the event to announce health, housing and civic projects for Haiderpur while assuring slum residents that their jhuggis would not be demolished.

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