Beggars Essay in English |
Beggars are a common sight anywhere in our country. We see them in narrow streets, public highways, outside luxurious hotels, on railway platforms, inside trains, outside mosques, in market places, in front of law courts. We see them singly or in groups. There re all kinds of them-ugly, diseased, deformed, blind, deaf, lame, dumb. Some of them are quite healthy and if they want to do work, they can, but they prefer to beg.
Novel practice among beggars they purposely make their children lame or blind soon after birth to excite more pity and thus earn better. They inflict wounds on children and take care that the wounds do not heal, They make them cry loudly. There are some wholesale contractors among them. They hire blind, deaf, dumb, diseased persons - on a fixed sum per day and at the end of the day they collect all money from them. Beggars play all kinds of tricks to get money out of people. Some may cry, some may start showering you with great good wishes for your long life and success and so on.
By giving alms to beggars we encourage them. In fact, the earning of a beggar is greater than that of some of the laborers. Even honest laborers might feel tempted to join the profession of begging. Begging can be removed but it requires time, patience and wise leadership.
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