The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to convene a meeting of chief secretaries of all the states within ten days to find out the steps taken by them so far to provide shelter to homeless persons.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu also asked the Urban Development Ministry to find out ways and means to provide necessary temporary shelter to all homeless people in the entire country.
The bench said, a report, giving details of the actions taken so far should be filed within three weeks and the meeting of the Chief Secretaries has to be convened within 10 days.
During the brief hearing, the bench said that it will not hear the matter relating to homeless persons in the national capital as the Delhi High Court is already seized of it and has been monitoring the development in the case.