Able-bodied adult beggars 📌 Involves both men and women. 📌Unemployment and under- Employment are the major Causative factors. 📌 People under this category exhibit Lazy tendency. 📌 Psychologically they are literally tempted to do this work.
Able-bodied child beggars Involves the following category of Beggars: 📌 children whose parents are Incapable of earning. 📌children who are forced By their parents to beg, due to Certain family disorganisations. 📌children whose are left under The control of heartless orphanages. (Illegally).
Sick/diseased beggars These people are affected with Incurable and untreatable diseases. Examples: ▪Leprosy ▪Venereal diseases As These diseases are spreadful in Nature, the ones categorised Under this category are hesitated By the society eventually.
These people consider begging as Their hereditary profession. Example: ▪jugglers ▪Nats ▪Kanjars They follow a nomadic life. (Place to place) Hereditary beggars
Physically challenged beggars This category includes people with Physical disabilities/ malfunctionings. The following groups of People are categorized under This type: ▪ Blind ▪ Deaf ▪ Crippled.
Mentally retarded beggars This type includes people with Psychological illness or psychic Oriented issues. Caution: People under this Category are to be kept under Observation.
Religious mendicants A mendicant (from Latin: mendicans, "begging") is one who practices mendicancy, relying chiefly or exclusively on alms to survive. Example : Buddhist Monks.
Causes for Beggary ▶ Biological causes ▶ Economical causes ▶ Religious causes ▶ Calamitic causes ▶ Social causes 🧠❗ Mnemonic : BERCS
Biological causes
Economical causes
Religious causes
Calamitic causes
Social causes
Factors influencing BEGGARY Negative factors . Positive factors . ( Increasing the incidence of (Decreasing the incidence of Beggary) beggary) 1.Age issues. 1. Self confidence. 2.Family disorganisation. 2. Health. 3.Loss of confidence. 3. Skill (to cope up). 4.Unemployment. 4. Job opportunities. 5.Widowhood. 5. Positive thinking.
Beggary Laws in India… or Anti - Beggary laws in India…
Our State…
Laws are not only to PREVENT but also to PUNISH …
⭐The Bombay City Police Act (1861) ⭐Calcutta Suburban Police Act(1866) ⭐The Madras City Police Act (1888) ⭐Leper Act (1898) ⭐The Punjab Municipal Act (1911) ⭐The Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act (1916)
As FUTURE CITIZENS… … . Let's induce people to work… Rather than to Beg…