DM Tours Hukulganj and Dhelwariya Relief Camps, Orders Round-the-Clock Care

By Harsh Mehra6 min read
Empty school hall with simple camp bunk beds and folded blankets in neat rows, daylight from high windows, no people, no text or logos
Illustrative image: Empty camp bunks in a school hall motif after the District Magistrate inspected Hukulganj and Dhelwariya flood relief camps.

District Magistrate Satyendra Kumar inspected flood relief camps in the Hukulganj and Dhelwariya pockets and ordered round-the-clock care standards for families still sheltered in school buildings, district administration accounts from the Saturday spell say. The named campuses in the tip set include Saraswati Vidya Mandir Hukulganj, Deepti Convent Hukulganj, Tulsi Niketan, Primary School Dhelwariya and Navyug Vidya Mandir Dhelwariya. This is a camp-hygiene and medical-cover story. It is not a second write-up of the Chief Minister’s Salarpur aerial-and-kit visit.

The DM’s directives, as carried from the rounds, were concrete. Meals must reach on time. Milk must be available for children. A medical team must stay on 24x7 cover. Kitchen hygiene must be enforced. Elderly and pregnant women need special attention inside the same camps. Those five lines are the operational spine. They do not require a rupee headline to matter to the people sleeping on school floors.

Hukulganj and Dhelwariya are inland shelter points for households pushed out by waterlogging and river-edge inundation. Converting classrooms into dormitories is how Varanasi has absorbed sudden displacement through this monsoon spell. The DM’s tour is the Collectorate’s way of checking whether those conversions still meet a minimum care bar after several days of occupancy.

Kitchen hygiene sits next to medical cover for a reason. Flood camps fail on stomach infections as often as they fail on missing blankets. Ordering clean kitchens and a round-the-clock medical desk is preventive administration, not ceremony. Milk for children is the nutrition line that separates a warehouse from a family shelter.

This package stays off the Chief Minister’s Rs 4 lakh and 1,131-farmer ledger on purpose. Those numbers belong to the CM visit story. Here the named schools, the DM, and the care orders are enough. Readers who need both files will find them as neighbouring ranks, not as one mashed briefing.

When the Ganga gauge is falling but lanes remain wet, camps do not empty on the same afternoon as a CWC bulletin. Satyendra Kumar’s rounds acknowledge that lag. People still in Hukulganj and Dhelwariya school halls need meals and medicine today, not only a promise of return once the steps at the ghat reappear.

No occupancy headcount beyond the named campuses is locked in this tip set, so none is printed as fact. No claim is made that every Varanasi relief camp was walked on the same circuit. The publishable list is the five school names above and the care orders attached to them.

Until those camps wind down, the District Magistrate’s standard remains the measure: timely food, children’s milk, 24x7 medical presence, hygienic kitchens, and extra watch on the elderly and pregnant. That is how Hukulganj and Dhelwariya stay a shelter story rather than a second emergency.

Sources and reporting

District Magistrate Satyendra Kumar’s inspection of named Hukulganj and Dhelwariya flood relief camps; directives on meals, milk for children, 24x7 medical teams, kitchen hygiene and care for elderly/pregnant. Distinct from CM Salarpur visit package.

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