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Daltonganj, January 28: Medininagar Municipal Corporation (MMC) proved to be a warm friend in the biting winter to 300-plus examinees taking the combined graduate level (CGL) test conducted by the JSSC late evening on Saturday.
Scores of such examinees were mulling over to spend a night at the Daltonganj railway station. Many such at the bus stand. They had no option except to brave winter night with the roof or without a roof. It was going to be a battle against all odds at night.
Exorbitant hotel price
The hoteliers here were demanding an exorbitant price for 6 hours of sleep. The price was ranging from 2000 to 2500 per head. No examinee was in any fiscal position to cough up this much money for a 6-hour sleep.
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It was here that the MMC came forward. City Commissioner Md Jawed Hussain, IAS, saw examinees with back bags loitering in the street. He immediately realised they needed shelter and the MMC must do something for the examinees.
Mission shelter
Hussain called up city mission manager Satish Kumar and then started mission shelter for the JSSC CGL examinees wandering in the street, at bus stands, and at the railway station.
Satish Kumar called in MMC’s enforcement squad and thus started ‘homing’ the examinee, who had no resources or clues about where to spend a cold winter night.
Ashray Grih
Around 150 examinees, all boys, were sheltered at the Ashray Grih. A similar contingent of boys and girls were sheltered separately at the MMC’s community centre. There was a female caretaker for the girl examinees.
When asked how mattresses and blankets were arranged on such short notice, Satish Kumar said, “We pooled in whatever we had with us at the Ashray Grih. We got bed rolls and blankets from the tent house. We did all possible thing that was within us at night.”
The MMC sheltered the examinees where there was electricity, water and a toilet. The entire service came all free. No examinee was denied sleep comfort except where they were made to sleep on the hall floor with a mattress and blanket. Two examinees were adjusted in one bed, but blankets came for each of the two where their number was swelling.
