Say no to beggers

Headline 1: A Man in guise of Child Specialist, houses 6 young children (all Abducted from secure homes), employs two care takers, all to earn 1500 - 2000 a day or upto 3 lakh a month by staging the children to beg in streets of Chennai.

Headline 2: Three Children, playing outside their homes were kidnapped by an unknown stranger. One abductor who was caught, pleaded guilty and confessed of his intent of abducting, is to loop the child into begging scam.

Dart it on the society that gives in to these beggars and let this ruthless scam gain perennial roots.




Chennai is a city full of vagabonds begging for money, in almost every traffic signal. These professional beggers, are well-networked and are with prominent clout. Mostly, during the day, their task is to sell inexpensive duped products, beg for money and wander for whatever can be of benefit to them. In the dusk, about 10.00 P.M. the beggers re-assemble to pool back their spoils of the day and celebrate their cash flows. They live in co-operative model or shared living and usually report to one or two leaders, who is suspected usually to be a goon or mafia. What upsets me the most in this professional begging model is that the children and new born infants in city, are abducted, drugged and let to faint in hands of women posing as mothers. Many infants, not being able to withstand the dose of drug, die within months or a year. A secret known to Chennai citizens, yet in fear of the underworld goons and mafia, one is forced to give a blind eye to the misery that these little children are put through.


I wish there was a campaign against begging in Chennai. But what best, as a citizen of Chennai can do, is this: Collectively, we should stop giving money or buy products from professional beggars  Begging, specifically through children and babies, should be discouraged. Help, if intended for goodwill, should always be given as food or clothing and never money.

Say “No” to beggars and progressively, we can build a city that is safe for our children to go out to.