Patna: Bihar has cancelled the selection of 50 NGOs for running shelter homes across the state and announced that the government will run them instead, an official said on Tuesday. The Social Welfare Department will replace the non-government organisations (NGOs) in running all such short stay homes in the state, he added. The state government took the decision keeping in view the over 30 rape cases and death of two women inmates at the Muzaffarpur home. The Muzaffarpur horror came to the fore following a social audit by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences from Mumbai that pointed at the sorry state of shelter homes run by NGOs in Bihar. “The government has cancelled NGOs selected recently for running the shelter homes. The Social Welfare Department will take over the management in the next three months,” the department official said. Till then the NGOs will continue to run these shelter homes. (IANS)
