GHMC To Take Up Family Dispute Issues In Slums

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) started a program to reunite enstranged families separated due to resolvable domestic issues.

The initiative taken up alongside Swachh Survekshan is aimed at bringing back families in slum areas that have separated due to financial and simpler domestic issues, in an attempt to reduce poverty. The GHMC will provide counsellors and other professionals for such enstranged families through SRACO and NGO.

The GHMC said that too few people in the city were making the most of benefits provided by the government, and added that the children of these families were being affected and denied of the many opportunities and services provided by the State.

The municipal body also said that several Self Help Group (SHG) members had informed that they were spending a lot of money and time around family courts for solving domestic issues, and many of them had requested the municipal authority to take the cases under their purview. Agreeing to this, the GHMC said that comprehensive community development should be made part of such missions in order to build a healthier society besides a healthy environment.

The GHMC has identified more than 281 separated families of which 158 have reportedly been reunited with the help of NGOs. The municipality will conduct a counseling session for rest of the families on January 25.