IT’S IMPORTANT TO FOCUS ON WOMEN AND GIRLS

Begging has become a common problem in the tricity. The following steps can help eradicate it:

- Compulsory and aided (ie free) education for children forced to beg, till Class 10. This will make children self reliant and provide them basic knowledge for socio-economic growth.

- Secondly, if the government takes steps to form bodies/association similar to ASHA (accredited social health activist) so that women/young girls can be taken care of, it can end begging among them. Women in slum areas have no facilities with respect to