Beggary and some solutions

Beggary is a major problem which is today affecting large population of India. First people are those who are involved in various beggary related jobs and second ones are the rest population of India which is exploited by these beggars. Most of the time, we all people have view that these beggars are innocents and are sufferers of societies inequalities. To some extent we all people are right, there are large number of beggars in India who are forced in to doing begging because our societies fails in providing any good alternative to them. The other issue is slightly more serious where large numbers of beggars are in begging for earning easy money or certain mafias are making money on their names. The major issues with this beggary problem are non awareness about this whole business, society’s failure, no humanitarian solutions and failure of government in stopping beggary.

It is not hard to find beggars in India who are earning Rs 1000 or above per day from begging still we feel that by giving one and two rupees what will happen to these beggars. In bigger cities, this collective money is very large and therefore large numbers of mafias are also involved in this begging business, which kidnap innocent children and make people artificially handicapped for using them in beggary. Even large numbers of leading doctors and police officers are also helping them in all this. Today beggary has become a serious business in our society which has lot of ugly realities but strangely we people are not ready to recognise them. One big option for stopping this menace of beggary could be increasing awareness among the people about this increasing problem, starting humanitarian programs for beggars and discouraging giving money to the beggars.

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