Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 18

Area residents have raised eyebrows over a few people sleeping and living at a bus queue shelter in Sector 45-B.

Kusum Ghai, a social worker, Sector 45

We have lodged complaints about it, but to no avail. Four or five persons cook, eat, sleep and live here. It is a government property, why are officials not bothered? When schools will open, boarding buses will be risky for students.

They have stored woods, mattress and other items at the bus queue shelter. Some of them allegedly also take drugs. Thus, even people coming to catch the bus have started waiting at some distance away from the bus stop.

“We have lodged complaints about it, but to no avail. Four to five persons cook, eat, sleep and live here. This is a government property, why are officials not bothered? When schools will open, boarding buses will be risky for students,” said Kusum Ghai, a social worker from Sector 45.