The drive is being launched by the Department of Social Welfare in a bid to make the national capital beggar-free by 2010, when it will host the Commonwealth Games.
"In the last three days, we picked these beggars spotted in Connaught Place, Hanuman Mandir and Janpath area and sent them to the homes in Lampur and Kingsway Camp," Social Welfare Department director S K Saxena said.
He said the beggars are being produced before respective magistrates and to prove their case the department have done videography of the beggars seeking alms.
The anti-begging campaign had to be stopped in March because of shortage of officials.
Now the drive has been restarted and will continue with an aim to put an end to the practice of begging in the city, the official said.
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Saxena said there is a provision under the anti-begging legislation in Delhi to remove beggars from the streets and keep them in beggars' homes or at juvenile rehabilitation centres if they are under the age of 16.
He said, "begging in the city is on rise and at times the involvement of mafia has been found."
"To ensure that the beggars do not start begging again, we are taking their finger-prints through bio-metric system installed at the beggars' homes," he said.