No place to hide, hard to survive

Nowadays, many people are illegally migrating from Bihar and Bangladesh to New Delhi due to their basic needs and economic condition or reason. From this illegal migration population is increasing on a daily basis and its creating a problem for our country. Problems which our country is facing are poverty, unemployment, illiteracy etc.

This picture indicates that these people are homeless. They don’t have night shelters and many of them have night shelters but there is no space to live there. So these people have to sleep on roads, footpath, railway station, bus stands. They are not having anything to eat or drink, they are unemployed, and they can’t make their children to study so many of them start begging just to survive or to earn something for their family. But begging is illegal in Delhi through an extension of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act of 1959 but still many people are begging. And many of women start working as a servant and their husband or father start doing work as a laborer on sites and many of them ride rickshaw.

Despite Indian Government and NGOs are running many programmes for the betterment of beggars. Free education, meals and medical facilities are offered to them at all government sponsored hospitals. Yet beggars don’t take advantage of these facilities. Hence only opportunities giving better employment, income, pension and not NGOs’ programmes alone can solve miseries of beggars in India.