Beggar's Scam

Beggar's Scam: Solution 

Back-Story 

A 15 years old boy left with no choice after the death of his parents, he begs at the Nagpur railway station! But he did not reach there on his own free will. After his parents death, he got 2 strangers. And sent him to Nagpur on the pretext of helping him, to a woman who runs a very dangerous racket! With the help of doctors, the racket of making children beg by mutilating their body parts! This is actual reality. Whereas, on the other hand, there is another boy, a professional beggar, who has a big flat, land, two houses in Solahpur, and have a lot of real estate properties. 

According to the National Human Rights Report, more than 40,000 children go missing in India every year! and 25% kids out of these 40k kids, i.e. more than 10k children who are never found! some are sold to a country like Africa or Thailand, Or a child is deliberately made handicapped and made to beg on the streets! Many such children have been arrested in India, who were deliberately making children handicapped and selling them to the begging mafia! This is a whole system! It is possible that the beggar to whom you gave money considering him helpless, that money did not work for him at all! it may be that the mother to whom you have given money to feed the child, may not be her child!

There are so many secrets that are buried! The corner that you and I are all unaware of, this is a whole industry.

According to the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, Begging was declared a crime in cities like Delhi and Mumbai! Because these beggars, cause a lot of congestion on traffic lights. According to this law whoever is seen begging, those people will be arrested and taken to a special court i.e. Beggars Court. And if found guilty, they will be sent special institutions i.e. beggars home.

But in 2021 the Supreme Court rejected this Bombay Begging Act 1959, saying that in a country where the government is unable to fulfill even the basic needs of the people, how can begging be a crime there? 

THE HINDU conducted a survey on 25k beggars, they came to know that a beggar earns 500 rupees a day. According to a census of 2011, there are 4,13,670 beggars. By 2015, the same number increased to half a million. I know what you are thinking. If Indian economy is developing this much, then why the beggars are increasing in our country. Who is responsible for all this. Government or common people like you and me? Or those people who have made it a full fledged business.

why do people beg?

To understand this we must fist know why people beg? According to the section 2(1) of BPBA, beggars are those who have no means of subsistence. Those people who are without food and drink! So, in very simple words, beggars do begging so that they can afford food, so that they can have a little money, they can wear clothes, or they can get shelter. I.e. food, cloth and house.

But there is more to it. Because you'll find two types of beggars.

category 1 - Those who have no choice ( Their condition had become so bad that they had no choice left.)

No. 1 - poverty and unemployment

No. 2 - Physical Disability (According to a report, 30% beggars of Delhi NCR have a kind of physical disability.

No. 3 - Natural Calamities.

No. 4 - psychological factors.

category 2-People who are deliberately forced into this thing by others for their own profit.

notice some beggar who will not leave you until you give them money, when you give them food i'd deny.Have you ever wondered why these people do not leave you?

Beggar's business-

Look at this data very very carefully. According to a report of NHRC, In India, more than 40k child are abducted every year. Out of these, more than 25% children i.e.  10k children are such that they are never found. Where all these children go?

Beggars mafias prepare controllers at different places under them. They use these four things to push the kids in this. These children are sold far away to begging mafia or to terror groups. And how this happens?

Step one - The Strategy. Proper strategies are used to bring in and retain these children, so that even after they come to know what's going on with them. Even then they could not even think of leaving it all.

No. 1 - Luring them.(Trapping children by giving them something to eat or by saying something.)

No. 2 - Kidnapping.

No. 3 - Renting (children from parents, There are many such children in India whose parents are given money and kids are taken on rent. And after that those children are made to do the work of begging.)

Step 2 - Controlling.

No. 1 - Threats.(Some kids are bullied)

Police have arrested many such doctors, they deliberately make those children medically handicapped and sell them to mafias. So that they can get maximum profit out of these children.

No. 2-training.(The children are trained in a special way so that they can collect maximum profit for these kids)

Step 3- Location Selection.(If you observe very carefully, You will find the most beggars, where people have the least amount of time to spend. And there is a very big reason behind it.)

Other Strategies-

Time-value equation

Suppose, you are sitting in a park and a beggar comes to you. He begs you. And you have plenty of time to entertain him. There are very high chances, you'll keep sitting with him but you won't give him money. And you'll notice, even after insisting a lot, even after trying a lot, that person didn't get succeed in his goal.Why? Why did it happen? Super simple. Because you had plenty of time to entertain it.

Whereas if you are going to mall, or have to go to watch a movie, at that time, you have very less time. And in that case, if a beggar sticks to you, you'll do all things to get rid of him. Reason being, because you have to reach movie hall on time. Or else you'll miss the movie. 

Human Psychology

how they beggars are able to earn so much money? Well, the answer is Human Psychology. And most oftenly better than you 

for example: have you seen a a poor woman with baby begging, have you  ever wondered Why is the child in every woman's hand always seen sleeping? why that child looks so helpless and hungry for many days. I know what you are thinking. When that child is hungry for so many days and has not eaten anything, then he will appear helpless and hungry. Well, that's not true. Because reality is different. They don't leave these children also. They are deliberately given such medicines, so that the child keeps sleeping, and its weight decreases so that, the child becomes very light, and that woman can carry him from one place to another. And how hard it is to carry a crying baby, you know that. So, they are given medicines deliberately.

First of all, either these kids are bought from human traffickers, or they are taken on rent from their parents, after which these children are given Anesthesia Due to which things becomes easy.

Most of the beggars target the foreigners. There are two reasons to it. Foreigners haven't seen this much poverty in their own country. So, they sympathize and gives them more money. And they have high paying capacity. 

And in this industry, this isn't limited to just women, but kids also do these things. Acting like a disabled. You must have seen such beggars, seeing whom you would have feel that this man is physically disabled. So that they can get the most sympathy from people.

What we can do, as citizens? 

If all these things are happening, what's its solution? What we can do, as citizens? Well, three things.

No.1 -Stop giving them money. (When you give money to any beggar, then indirectly, you are doing these two things. By giving him alms, you motivate other beggars to beg too. He sees that if he gets the money, I'll get the money too! Secondly, if you help a person by giving them money, in that scenario too, that person won't do good in life. He'll do begging again. Because if he get money on asking once, then why work hard next time! And this is extremely dangerous for the society.)

No. 2- make them resourceful.(If you genuinely want to help someone, help them with food, clothing, job, etc). providing them access to jobs is the best way to help.

No. 3- try to share this message.(When less people will give money to these beggars, then these mafias won't think to push these kids in all these things. When no one will give alms, people will start working instead of begging.)

Conclusion 

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