{"id":122029,"date":"2021-07-29T19:48:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=122029"},"modified":"2021-07-29T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:18:19","slug":"it-begs-the-question-begging-is-a-matter-of-survival-not-choice-invisibilising-destitute-solve-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/it-begs-the-question-begging-is-a-matter-of-survival-not-choice-invisibilising-destitute-solve-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"It begs the question- Begging is a matter of survival, not choice. Invisibilising destitute solve nothing-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/blogs\/toi-editorials\/it-begs-the-question-begging-is-a-matter-of-survival-not-choice-invisibilising-destitutes-solves-nothing\/\">Times of India<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Relevance &#8211; SC has ruled against the criminalization of begging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis \u2013 <\/strong>The Supreme Court refuses to ban begging amid pandemics.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Introduction-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court turned down a petition demanding to restrain vagabonds and the homeless from begging at traffic lights, markets, and public places, to prevent the spread of corona virus.<\/li>\n<li>The Supreme Court also stated that it is a socio-economic issue that requires a compassionate and humanitarian solution. It asked the Centre and State governments to ensure vaccinations for the homeless and providing them with shelter and food amid the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>The SC observed that vagabonds, homeless, are compelled to beg on the streets to make a living owing to a lack of education and work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Begging law in India-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no central law on begging and destitution. Most states [20 states and two UTs] have adopted the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, which criminalizes begging or has modeled their laws on it.<\/li>\n<li>The Bombay Prevention Act allows the police and social welfare departments to simply seize homeless people, or indeed anyone who looks destitute, and send them to detention centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Previous stance over begging-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>In 2018, Delhi High Court<\/strong> decriminalized begging in the national capital and pointed out that nobody begs out of choice or to shirk other employment.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Way forward-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>In a society where the government is unable to provide food or work, how can begging be considered a restraint or an offense? It is immoral to turn the poor into criminals until the government can offer good livelihoods for everybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; Times of India Relevance &#8211; SC has ruled against the criminalization of begging. Synopsis \u2013 The Supreme Court refuses to ban begging amid pandemics. Introduction- The Supreme Court turned down a petition demanding to restrain vagabonds and the homeless from begging at traffic lights, markets, and public places, to prevent the spread of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/it-begs-the-question-begging-is-a-matter-of-survival-not-choice-invisibilising-destitute-solve-nothing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It begs the question- Begging is a matter of survival, not choice. Invisibilising destitute solve nothing-<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263],"class_list":["post-122029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700233890},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}