| Begging is not allowed and yet beggars are very | | | | administration should take care of all the beggars. |
| common in India. They can be seen at places of | | | | Those who are hale and hearty should be given |
| worship platforms, road-crossings, monuments, fairs | | | | some gainful employment. And those who are |
| and streets. They wander from street to street, | | | | crippled, blind, deaf or dumb should be looked after |
| locality to locality and from one bazaar to another. | | | | at public expense. |
| They beg for money, food, clothes etc. in alms. They | | | | Beggars often cheat the simple and gullible people, |
| often create trouble and cause nuisance. Sometimes | | | | particularly religiously maided ones. They deceive and |
| they commit thefts, pick pocketing and such other | | | | create problems. Their number is ever on increase. |
| anti-social acts. | | | | They indulge in drinking, gambling, drug-abuse, |
| Begging has become a thriving and well organized | | | | child-lifting, thefts etc. They also spread disease. The |
| profession. Sometimes there are reports in the | | | | beggary is now a well- organised profession and |
| newspapers about dead beggars leaving a huge | | | | there are contracts for various well-known places of |
| amount of money and property behind them. | | | | begging. Children are often kidnapped and stolen and |
| They move here and there singing or in groups and | | | | then disfigured and maimed and forced to beg for |
| adopt various tricks to arouse pity and sympathy | | | | their criminal masters. |
| among the people. They are of many kinds-men, | | | | Begging is a great social evil and should be dealt |
| women, children, diseased, deformed, bind, lame and | | | | accordingly. It is a disgrace on the Indian society. |
| lepers. In many a case a beggar may be a quite | | | | Everything possible should be done to eradicate |
| healthy and able-bodied. But he or she may pretend | | | | beggars and begging. The police, the administration, |
| to be blind, maimed or diseased. They present and | | | | the social groups and voluntary agencies should come |
| ugly sight and make a very bad impression on the | | | | together and eradicate the problem. The political |
| visiters from foreign Countries. They create chaos | | | | leaders and parties should take the lead and see that |
| and disorder and spoil the image of the Country. | | | | this social pestilence is no more there. Law courts can |
| Beggars do not deserve any charity at all, not even | | | | also help in checking the menace. They can direct the |
| lame, blind and diseased. Those who are really | | | | government to strictly ban the beggary . People can |
| maimed, blind or deprived should be sheltered into | | | | approach the law courts with public interest petitions |
| asylums and poor-houses and not allowed to roam in | | | | in the matter. |
| the open. The government and the local | | | | |