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Goa will be India's first beggar-free state: Parrikar

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IANS Panaji

Goa will strive to become India's first beggar-free state, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said in his budget speech on Friday.

"We will conceive a full fledged rehabilitation centre for beggars and a rehabilitation centre for destitutes," Parrikar told the Goa legislative assembly.

Parrikar also said that for a state with a high per capita income, Goa was seeing a rapid increase in the number of beggars.

--IANS

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First Published: Mar 24 2017 | 2:20 PM IST

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