Beggary.pptx

about beggary

1. B E G G A R Y

2. What is beggary? The Bombay Prevention of Beggars Act defines beggars as, “A person without subsistence wandering about or found in public places, or allowing him to be used as an exhibit for the purpose of begging.”

3. Types of beggars .

4. Child beggars The children engaged in begging maybe poor at home or may have stopped school education as dropouts, or may have run away from home or doing odd jobs and begging too. Most of these children are between the ages10 and 16.

5. Physically handicapped They are blind, lame, deaf and people who have lost their arms or feets owing to accidents or diseases.

6. Mentally sick beggars They are lunatics and mentally deficient people, men and women, who seldom live in their homes.

7. Able-bodied beggars They are physically and mentally fit to work, but then they have taken begging as profession. They do not want to get rid of their habit

8. Religious mendicants Religions like Buddhism and Hinduism have somehow or other encouraged beggars.

9. Temporarily unemployed beggars Unemployement paves the way to poverty. So when people are rendered unemployed they take to begging.

10. Permanently unemployed Those who fail to secure employement for their livelyhood . and find it difficult to have proper jobs, although they are physically and mentally alright.

11. Causes of beggary .

12. poverty There are millions of people who live in chronic poverty and have nothing to eat, wear or live in and so they take to begging.

13. Physical defects and diseases Physical deformities like blindness, deformed legs and hands, deafness, etc make a person unable to do any work. People with chronic diseases like TB and malaria also lose their ability to work regularly.

14. Mental disorders In a poor country, family members are unable to support abnormal persons at home .

15. leprosy A very large bulk of beggars are lepers. Severe stigma is attached to it and anyone afflicted with it is simply thrown out on streets to beg.

16. Children uncared for Marriage is a universal phenomenon but nobody worries about the number of children and the means to bring them up well. So, poor children go out of the home and take to beg.

17. death Death of the family is also a cause of beggary.

18. Natural calamities Famines, floods and earthquake turn many as orphans and destitute. There are institutions run by govt and NGOs to take care of them but all cannot be looked after.

19. Desire to give alms Human nature all over the world is to give alms to the poor and beggars. Many times it is not realized that by giving alms , we are encouraging beggary. There are religious, moral and humanitarian motives behind this. All religions teach that its follower should be kind, loving, hospitable and helping the needy.

20. Management of the problem .

21. . Most of the civilized countries have prohibited begging. In india also various states have made legislations against beggary. The laws are as following: 1. Prohibit and penalize begging in public areas. 2. classification is made on the basis of age and physical co ndition and juveniles are taken care of under the provision of the children act. 3. most of them are operatives in areas notified by the govt. 4. all the legislations penalize escape or violation of discipline with imprisonment, fine or both. There are institutions in the states for custody, care and assistance to beggars and their rehabilitation. The inmates are provided with food, clothing, sanitation, education and vocational training. Employement facilities are provided to able bodied.

22. Suggestions for the Eradication of Beggary .

23. . 1. The law concerning beggary should be made more stringent and uniform for the entire India. Any beggar found in the public should be arrested immediately. The beggars should not be allowed to move from place to place. 2. More orphanages, shelter homes and beggar homes should be established, so that orphans, destitute and the disabled may be given proper care and protection. 3. Old age homes should be established, so that the aged citizens may be looked after well. This is especially so in cases where the children do not care for their old parents. 4. Any able-bodied persons found begging should be severely dealt with. The names of such persons should be registered and listed. Further, they must be made to work. 5. Any person found begging should be fined heavily. He should be sent to beggars home and made to work.

24. . 6. Try to educate beggars and develop a sense of dignity of self-respect, any labor in their life. 7. more organized community efforts should be made to eradicate the problem. 8 . All efforts should be made to create social awareness in the public about the problem of beggary, so that collective efforts are made to solve it. The existing legislations against beggary also should be made known to the public.

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