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Volume : III, Issue : IV, May - 2013

EMPLOYMENT STATUS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BEGGARS: A STUDY IN ALIGARH DISTRICT

JABIR HASAN KHAN , MENKA AND FALAK BUTOOL

DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

Beggars in India are the victim of an imbalanced socio-economic system. They are the most vulnerable people in our society. They are the example of human degradation to the lowest extent, and they are a menace to the healthy society. Most of them are the product of economic deprivation, destitution and neglect (Cama, 1945). Begging is commonly defined as the act of stopping people on the street to ask for assistance, for example in the form of food or money (Bose & Hwang, 2002 and Collins & Blomley, 2003). According to the Census of India (2001), beggars are “vagrants, prostitutes and person having unidentified source of income and those with unspecified source of subsistence and not engaged in any economically productive work during reference period called beggars.”

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JABIR HASAN KHAN , MENKA AND FALAK BUTOOL, (2013). EMPLOYMENT STATUS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BEGGARS: A STUDY IN ALIGARH DISTRICT. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. IV, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2326.pdf

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