Question

Write an article on Beggary in India 120-150 words.

Answer 1

Beggars are known to be one of the most miserable people on earth. They depend on others for the fulfillment of their needs. They are treated badly and are deprived of the basic necessities.

Beggars roam around from street to street or sit at a particular place each day begging people to offer them food and money. They are looked down upon. We must ask beggars to work instead of giving them money and encouraging them to beg. Here are essays on Beggars of varying lengths to help you with the topic in your exam. You can choose any Essay on Beggar as per your need and requirement:

Long and Short Essay on Beggars in English

Essay on the Life of a Beggar – Essay 1 (200 words)

Beggars beg for a living. They usually do not have a house to live in. While some of them reside in slum areas many are denied entry even at such places. They lead their lives living on the footpath. In the big cities, footpath and road side areas are the only places they get to sleep and lead their lives.

During the day time, the beggars sit on the footpath asking the passers-by to lend them food and money. At night, they sleep at the same place as they have nowhere to go. Some beggars put on tents on the footpath where they leave their kids and keep their belongings. However, the place is occupied illegally and is often wrecked by the police. And these beggars are once again forced to live on the footpath without any roof on their head.

In places such as Delhi, where the weather conditions are extreme, the life of beggars is the worst. They have to face the adverse effects of heat and cold. Things get even worse during the rainy season. Beggars suffer from illnesses caused due to exposure to extreme weather. The news of beggars living on the footpath dying due to heat wave, cold and heavy rainfall is quite common. They certainly lead a very difficult life.

 

Essay on Street Beggars – Essay 2 (300 words)

Introduction

Begging is a cause of concern for the society. While beggars are usually found at the traffic signals, in front of the temples and other such places some of them also roam around from street to street to beg for alms, money and food. These are the worst kind of beggars as they intrude the residential areas and disrupt peace.

 

Street Beggars: Despised by Residents

Street beggars usually have particular areas assigned to them. They visit these areas from time to time to beg for a living. These beggars are dressed in rags and carry a shabby bag on their shoulder. Women are usually seen carrying a small child in their arms which is a tactic to invoke pity. Small kids in torn clothes also go around from street to street begging for food, clothes and money.

Some elderly men are seen dressed as saints carrying a bowl in one hand and a stick in another as they go begging from street to street. They mostly move in groups singing religious songs and pleading for food and money. Many a times, such beggars ring the door bells of the residents and ask them to help them monetarily. This is quite annoying as it hampers the privacy of the people. They often narrate their sad stories to the residents who help them out of pity.

It is very difficult to figure out whether the story being told by these beggars is genuine or fake. Such people start out with begging and often go on and get involved in crimes such as theft, robbery and even murder. Street beggars are more likely to get involved in such bigger crimes. Since they get to know about the whereabouts and the financial status of the residents of the areas they visit frequently it is easier for them to carry out thefts and robbery.

Conclusion

Begging is one of the major issues in our society. The government must take stringent steps to stop the same.

 

Essay on Life of a Beggar in India – Essay 3 (400 words)

Introduction

India is engulfed with many problems and begging is one of them. Statistics reveal that about half a million people in our country are beggars. Here is a look at the way these beggars lead their lives and what invokes them to choose begging as a way of life.

 

Answer 2

The moment you stop your car at the traffic red light, you see a dirty looking woman with a child in her arm come running to you or a little boy with running nose banging your car window or a handicapped old man asking for alms. This is a common sight in India. You will find many of these people in the railway stations, metro stations, tourist spots, in temples and in many areas where there is a regular crowd. At times, out of sheer pity or out of fear from being cursed by God or out of irritation, we tend to give them some coins or money and  shoo them away.

Begging in India for Poverty

Begging is one of the most serious social issues in India. In spite of its rapid economic growth, India is a poverty-driven country, which is also leading to the growth of beggars in the country. Most of them come from Bangladesh and some of them are from India. There are few beggars in the country who actually are the real ones, who beg because they are handicapped, because of their inability to work or because they are old or blind or because they really need money for basic needs. There are many others who live far below the poverty line and opt for begging to earn their livelihood.

In some cases, we find the entire family is involved in begging. The family members keep on increasing with marriage and birth and each of them gets into begging on streets or temples. Children of such families do not go to school but only beg. They have to do begging because their family’s income is not enough to feed the entire family in a day. Here, poverty is one big reason for such a situation. But at the same time, begging is not the solution for such a situation.

Begging in India as a scam

But poverty is just one side of the story. Poverty is real in India but not begging. Begging in India has become a big racket in the country. For many, begging is just like any other profession. They go out to earn money, not by working, but by begging. In fact, there are begging gangs in cities like Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata etc. These gangs have their own gang leaders. Each leader allots a particular territory for a group of beggars and the day’s earnings are shared among them. The gang leader keeps the larger share. These beggars are so involved in begging that they don’t want to work elsewhere. It’s strange but true that some of these beggars earn in thousands and lakhs, much more than a normal middle class worker.

It is very difficult to find out who is a real beggar and who is not because looks are very deceptive. Even the children with their dirty faces with pleading looks are properly trained to beg and look real. Sometimes our heart melts when we see a young woman holding her tiny baby, begging on the streets. In most cases, the baby is found sleeping. This is a scam. Many sting operations have revealed that babies are rented to give credibility to begging. Sometimes, babies are drugged for the entire day so that they look sick and they can be easily carried from one area to another by the young women beggars.

The beggars are trained to become very persistent while begging that you are bound to give them money. This is especially true for foreigners when they do not know how to react in such situations and ultimately give money to the beggars. Some of the young beggars also become anti-social elements of the country. They get into drugs. To buy drugs, they start with begging first, then slowly graduate to pick pocketing and then move on to bigger scams like robbing and killing.

What should we do?

Begging has grown at a significant rate in India. It is estimated that half a million people in India are beggars. The government, varied organizations, activists claim that many measures have been taken to abolish begging and it has been successful to a certain extent. But the trend of begging still continues. We are also to be blamed. We as Indians are very orthodox, God-fearing and have a religious frame of mind. This compels us to do charity. And one easy way is to visit a nearby temple and give alms to the beggars there.

But as the citizens of this country, it is our moral responsibility to stop this menace and the best way is to stop giving alms. It might seem that we are very heartless in not giving money to a little child begging on the street, but this is one step that we can take to prevent begging. If more and more people come out and take a pledge that they are not going to give a single penny to any beggar, irrespective of their need, I am sure, beggary will then be completely uprooted from our country. Meanwhile, let the government continue with its poverty alleviation schemes and make India a better place to live in.

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