Who created begger's in india ?

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MeMeMe

Poverty and unemployment.

We should help them by assisting them in establishing a living. Unfortunately, people in India either ignore or kick beggars...Beggars are people too, but in hard times. It would be great if we could all strive to help one poor person....we could help him/her establish a means of living....maybe by getting them a job...like washing clothes, repairing sandals, helping at the grocery store, anything.....!! Don't turn away from beggars, they're fellow human beings, help them!!

Thanks!!

The same people or conditions that created them in any other country: poverty, diseases, lack of education, lack of opportunities, flood, drought, famines, mental illnesses... you name it!

Ravi

At the begining physical challenge might have created beggers. Afterwards the lack of willingness to work created it. Never poverty and unemployment creates beggers.

yaar57

Zaman Khan smokes his heroin-filled cigarette to the butt, before rushing through the darkening streets to a traffic intersection on Shahrae Faisal, one of the busiest avenues of Karachi, Pakistan. Zaman is a faqir baba or beggar and like scores of others his day begins at dusk.

Zaman squats at the junction stretching out his hand for alms whilst a three-year old boy lies comfortably asleep in his lap: 'The kid is starving. can't even open his eyes .please help this poor baby. God will re-pay you in heaven,' he chants with a frequency and speed that comes from practice. The boy - nick-named Babu - attracts considerable attention. 'Goora qabaristan - Christian's graveyard - I swear he is my son,' Zaman insists: 'My wife ran away and left me with the boy. She had a crush on a young faqir. *****!'

But a newspaper hawker who sells evening papers at the same intersection tells a different tale: 'Zaman is a heroin addict. No-one gives him alms unless he has a baby. Until last week he used to have a little girl. He has been doing this for at least two years. The babies change, but the story stays the same. Zaman is physically fit and arouses little public sympathy when unaccompanied: 'Those fat asses in big cars are real misers. They hate to spare a few pennies,' he complains, 'The first thing they say is "Why don't you find yourself a job". Inhuman, ruthless bastards! They don't know what we go through'.

Zaman's approach has much in common with many Western aid agencies which use children as bait in their fund-raising adverts. The difference between them, however, is that Zaman needs the money to survive. Like many other childless beggars, Zaman rents babies. In anarea, children can be rented for around 50/- per day. In return the child earns as much as 150/- daily for his or her 'employer' by begging at traffic intersections and posh shopping centres.

Population growth has created enormous social problems. Immigrants have come from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma and from Sind province in India. In the city they face great poverty.

Amongst the poorest are single mothers like 35-year-old Neelam, who has been abandoned by her husband and left to bring up her four children alone. Neelam says her husband was 'a bad character'. She curses him for divorcing her: 'I once caught him sleeping with my cousin. I wanted to forgive him but he never even apologized and instead he threw us all out. You see I can't walk. My left leg is paralyzed, so I couldn't get a job and there was no-one to help me'.

Neelam begs at Abdullah Shah Ghazi Mazar - tomb of a Muslim saint . She earns around 50/- a day but it is not enough to keep her family comfortably alive. Reluctantly she admits to renting out her two sons: We all have to work. If the baby eats, then what is wrong with him earning bread for himself? And I only let the children beg with people I know. I don't give them to strangers'. Her two sons are able to make up the family income increase.
Poor parents like Neelam have no option but to rent their children to professional beggars who dress the children in rags and take them begging. The sight of a thin, half-naked three-year-old in the lap of a woman during winter is bound to generate concern - and hence alms.

Begging is almost a science. Professional beggars often use make-up on rented children to make them look physically or mentally retarded. Opium, mandrax or other drugs are also given - usually to children aged between two and four years old - to keep them asleep and sickly-looking. Most are addicted to some drug or other by the time they reach adulthood - usually heroin.

Says Neelam: 'When I started this life two years back, I used to cry. It is difficult to give your babies away no matter how well you know the man who is taking them. But what could I do? Today it is easier. Maybe you think I am emotionless. That could be true. But hunger makes you a beggar'. Her eyes fill with tears.

You might want to help a poor child in the Third World.
But sponsoring them is not the best way.

But all sponsorship programmes have at least some of these defects.

Focusing on individuals often means that aid agencies arbitrarily single out children or families for preferential treatment. The chosen few may receive extra food, education, clothes, medical treatment and gifts which others do not. Brothers, sisters or other families become jealous. And parents can feel humiliated because outsiders are providing things which they cannot - or frustrated that only one of their children receives help.
The sponsored child is constantly reminded that they are the 'poor relation'. They must always be prepared to show gratitude to the 'rich cousins' on whose charity they depend. The best aid projects foster initiative and enterprise in those they help. Sponsorship programmes always run the risk of fostering dependence.
CULTURAL CONFUSION

The exchange between child and sponsor can be culturally insensitive to the child's way of life. Children may know nothing about Christmas, say, but find themselves encouraged to send Christmas cards. Imagine you were a Christian and a wealthy Arab sponsored your child and sent them presents and pictures of their sumptuous lifestyle along with a copy of the Koran to read.

DISAPPOINTED LIBERATION

Programmes which give education to individual children can isolate them from family and friends. They are educated to uselessness, unable to obtain well-paid white-collar work in their own towns or village and unwilling to do low paid 'menial' labour. As adults they either remain at home dissatisfied, or take their skills further afield, away from the community that needs them.

The only way to eradicate beggars is to adopt a child without above minus points and teach them to grow as a gentleman of Society.

keral

it is a big bisiness

Annie

hmmm...........???? England, they ruined India totally!!!!

brainless

beggars are created by unfortunate circumstances faced by people. having a spell of bad luck for anyone can reduce him/her to the status of a beggar overnight. God had created all humans equal but some with stroke of luck & circumstances of birth became the rich & some due to spate of ill luck became beggars. instead of belittling them & making all sorts of comments on them we should try to rehabilitate them so that they can lead a life with dignity. there are some genuine beggars but yes, there are many who pretend to be & play with people's emotions to just get some quick money so they do not have to earn a living.

MURUGESAN P

nothing but one of our peers.. as do not have helping tendency..

balakrishnan c

Who are above the level of beggars

BignTall

I dont think any one created beggers in India or for that matter any where in the world but if u have to blame someone....it is the GOVERNMENT...

Prav

Likes of you and I

wizard of the East

mostly the govt. policty and taxation has made the beggers. U can rightly say, God made man, the indian govt. made the beggers. If the govt. changes the policies and allows fair and easy licencing and other procedures, more enterprises and services can be offered, thus creating more jobs and reduce poverty. The govt. rules are so rigid that some people just hold the money they have, without venturing into anything, thus the country does not prosper.

Rob

You have got most answers for one kind of beggers.

The other kind of beggers are created by corrupt and greedy people.

Now you tell me who is a bigger and worst begger.
will it work to say - " Begging is a crime punishable by law"

Sanjay C

Who is a beggar? A poor person is not a begger. A poor can work and earn for his living but a begger is the one who do not want to work and want to live on help provided by others.

1. Beggars are being created by the tendency or attitude of earning without any efforts, by living on the help provided by others. This makes them beg instead of working.

2. Beggars are also being created by the people who help them by giving alms without thinking that it will make them not to work and earn. If a person is earning without any efforts why will he put efforts to earn.

Helping someone to earn by working or helping him/her to see that their efforts bring them good results is a good thing. But helping those who do not want to put any efforts will make them beggars.

These beggars also play with your emotions and your religious feelings extract money from you by different ways. You ask them for some work and pay they will simply disappear.

Even our own politicians have become beggars by asking for help from others when they can work (honestly) hard and grow.

Hence it is the attitude/tendency as mentioned above which makes beggars.

sweetnizu

The beleivers of god themselves. They were commanded by god to give there Zakath and Sadaqa to people who are in need. those who are in a situation to give zakath and sadaqa should give them.

adm_maaf

God

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