Critical Review About Beggary

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...