This family in Jammu lives in a truck

Jammu: As mercury level dips further and winter gets bitter, a family in Jammu is braving it all out in the open. For the last 26 years, believe it or not, a truck has been home to Bittu Massi and his family of five.

They have covered the truck with plastic sheets, however, that is not enough to beat the winter chill in Jammu with the minimum temperature dipping to near zero at night.

"We face a lot of difficulties in the cold, this year the winter has been very severe in Jammu," says Bittu who works as a watchman at the Narwal truck terminal, earning less than three thousand rupees a month.

Though there aren't many homeless people in Jammu but for those unlucky few like Bittu, winter is especially a tough time.

"We have got just one plastic sheet and just one blanket and that's not enough for all of us," says Bittu's daughter Sonia.

With little hope in sight, Bittu Massi and his family can only wish there is an end to winters soon for their difficulties to end as well.

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