{"id":13226,"date":"2009-10-09T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/beggars-on-streets-of-dwarka\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T12:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T07:04:30","slug":"beggars-on-streets-of-dwarka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/beggars-on-streets-of-dwarka\/","title":{"rendered":"Beggars on the Streets of Dwarka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>To,<br \/>Hon&#8217;ble Chief Minister<br \/>New Delhi<\/p>\n<p>Dear Madam,<br \/>I am a resident of Dwarka and member of Dwarka Forum (Regd). I would like to draw your attention to the above subject.<br \/>We have noticed a significant growth of beggars at all major traffic signals in Dwarka which is a<br \/>complete eye sore to the public at large.<br \/>Our concerns are: <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8BgY8JJh6wM\/Ss9yPb3b_5I\/AAAAAAAADWo\/sve0JZjam0c\/s1600-h\/BeggarDelhi.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br \/>1. They are common sight at traffic signals absolutely not something that Delhi would like to showcase to tourists.<\/p>\n<p>2. They frequently tap on car windows asking commuters\/tourists for loose change.<\/p>\n<p>3. Dwarka being near to domestic and international airport is more likely to become an eye sore for tourists.<\/p>\n<p>4. They slow down the traffic and even cause traffic jams at traffic signals.<\/p>\n<p>5. They are prone to accidents.<\/p>\n<p>6. Number of them is aged between 5 to 12 and use dividers as shelters. It&#8217;s a huge risk for their as well as commuters&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p>7. There number grow up on Saturdays to blackmail commuters on the basis of religion.<\/p>\n<p>8. Anti social elements take advantage and mix with them for snatching from commuters.<\/p>\n<p>9. Unscrupulous sellers use these beggars as agents for selling their goods such as toys,<br \/>magazines and books etc.<\/p>\n<p>10. Begging is an offence under the prevention of begging act 1959<\/p>\n<p>As we are all aware most of beggars are forced to beg especially children. We learnt that Delhi<br \/>authorities launched their first mobile court on Sep 1st 09 to convict beggars on the spot as part of clean up the city ahead of CW games.<\/p>\n<p>We know there is much more to do than just removing them from the streets; hence, we look forward to your support on this matter and learn about your course of action.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your support in advance.<br \/>Anoop Rohera,<br \/>Member <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/dwarka-residents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dwarka Forum<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To,Hon&#8217;ble Chief MinisterNew Delhi Dear Madam,I am a resident of Dwarka and member of Dwarka Forum (Regd). I would like to draw your attention to the above subject.We have noticed a significant growth of beggars at all major traffic signals in Dwarka which is acomplete eye sore to the public at large.Our concerns are: 1. They are common sight at traffic signals absolutely not something that Delhi would like to showcase to tourists. 2. They frequently tap on car windows asking commuters\/tourists for loose change. 3. Dwarka being near to domestic and international airport is more likely to become an <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,1],"tags":[1881],"class_list":["post-13226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-problems-and-issues","category-update","tag-news-events-dwarka","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65542,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226\/revisions\/65542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}