New mothers are also among those who spend the night on the roadside. Ludhiana News – Times of India

Ludhiana: His hut was submerged in water, Sonpari Forced to sit on the roadside with her 4 day old son waiting for her mother to come from Hisar. the story was like Radha Who had given birth to a baby girl just four days ago. Taking the child in her lap, she was expecting help from the administration. Though the MC officials asked the slum dwellers to board the bus so that they could be taken to a safer place, some were reluctant to leave the site and stayed on the ground near their flooded shanties.
A relative of Sonpari said, “She gave birth to a baby boy four days ago. Water entered the hut on Wednesday night and since then we have been sitting here on the roadside. We could only bring out a cot, leaving the rest in the hut.” “My brother almost died trying to get stuff out of our hut,” Radha said, adding that her husband was inside Faridkot And she is unable to decide what to do next.