Begging

What happens if you give money to beggars in Indore after January 1, 2025

From January 1, 2025, handing money to beggars in Indore may lead to an FIR

NHRC advisory on begging recommends nationwide database, rehabilitation

Building a nationwide database and drafting a national policy for protection and rehabilitation of individuals engaged in begging are among the recommendations of an NHRC advisory issued on Friday. The advisory was issued to the Centre and state governments to develop strategies aimed at eliminating the need for begging and enhancing the quality of life for those involved in it, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said in a statement. It noted that despite a number of initiatives and welfare programmes implemented by the central and state governments, begging persisted across the country. According to the 2011 census, there were more than 4,13,000 (4.13 lakh) beggars and vagrants in India, it said. In its recommendations, the NHRC asked the authorities to draft a national policy for the protection and rehabilitation of individuals involved in begging to prepare and implement welfare schemes for them with targeted financial assistance, vocational training, poverty alleviatio

K'taka: Kalaburagi city corporation launches survey to rehabilitate beggars

Karnataka's Kalaburagi City Corporation has launched a survey of beggars to rehabilitate them and stop the practice

Demolishing myths about begging

Begging is considered a legitimate form of economic activity by poor people with disabilities, who are neglected by state institutions that fail to reintegrate them with the larger society

Begging not crime in Delhi: HC junks law that 'violates fundamental rights'

The court said the state cannot fail to do its duty to provide a decent life to its citizens and add insult to injury by arresting, detaining and imprisoning those who beg

In most Indian states And UTs, you can be arrested for 'looking poor'

Laws allow police to round up beggars without warrant and judges to confine them