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Background: Beggars exists in all society law and begging is prevalent throughout the world. Place, prevalence and pattern of begging changed with the living place. It is a social evil in India and in developing world. So that this study was carried out for psychosocial aspects of begging in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh. T Aim: his study aimed to assess psychosocial aspects of beggars in Indore and to nd psychosocial reasons of becoming beggar. Data collection Methods: techniques included: (1) survey through head count and (2) structured individual interviews. A sample of 100 beggars was selected through purposive sampling procedure so that all categories of beggars get covered. The interviews were conducted in the months from May 2021 to July 2021. Data was veried manually at various stages, tabulated and analysed in the form of tables, bar diagrams, histograms, charts, etc. In this study, most of the beggars were children and Results: adolescents and were females. Most of them started begging since the age of 6 years and came from nuclear family and living with the parents. They mostly beg for basic needs and supporting family nancially. One fourth were beggars by choice because they don't want to do anything else. About half of the beggars started begging by force of their family. They were begging by means of selling the pens, toys, tissue paper etc. and feigning as if themselves or their children are diseased. 73%, 51%, 47%, 36%, 21 and 13% of total sample size were using tobacco gutkha, bidi/cigarettes, alcohol, solution/fumes inhalation, ganja and smack respectively. There is need of planning for elimination of this Conclusions: problem and beggars could be converted into worthy human capital and workforce for achieving a higher growth rate and ensuring inclusive development. |
