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Introduction:
India has the largest number beggars population than any other countries. We can see beggary is one of the oldest concept of India. Beggary is and was socially and culturally accepted phenomena. Begging was accepted as a way of life, giving alms to the needy is considered as a religious value. According to few Hindu vedas and scriptures the first step to becoming a SADHU or (Monk) is to beg for teacher and a self. Ancient Hindu texts refer to it by different names such as bhiksham and daan. Thus giving and receiving something alm are religious duties
In Islam Zakat or obligatory almsgiving is one of the five pillar of islam and compulsory to all muslims.
Many Christian societies also regard alms giving as a form of religious duty.
India has the largest number beggars population than any other countries. We can see beggars in
villages and towns, on roads, crossings, on footpaths, most of the times you find them at bathing
ghats, temples, religious or festival fares, filling stations, restaurants, uper markets, mosques,
churches, etc, railways stations, trains and bus-stands.
Types of beggars
Religious beggars
Crippled and disabled beggars
There are beggars who are quite stout and able-bodied. Begging for them is not a necessity but a
profession
There are idlers and lazy who are unwilling to earn their bread by hard work
Young women with new born babies or young children.
Current Positions in India
THE ABOLITION OF BEGGING BILL, 2010
For the last sixty-two years of our independence, Government has failed to check and
abolish begging in the country. Despite welfare measures taken by the Central and the State
Governments, begging continues unabated all over the country, especially in the metroplitan
cities and urban centres
according to a survey conducted in 2004 there were about 60,000 beggars in Delhi, where 6,00, 000
mumbai, 75000 in Kolkata, 56000 in bangalore, and 1 in every 354 people in hyderabad...