When I took snaps of some children begging on the pretext of selling paints at the metro station, the children started running away.
|| Karamvir Kamal
Another girl who might be around 9-10 years old told other children that someone is taking their snaps. Hearing this, all the children did flee from the spot where they were begging. Children are the future of the country. But at least these kinds of begging children should not be the future of the country.
How can children be the future of the country who are begging on streets and red lights? If the children begging is the future of the country, then how can that country be perceived.
Is this the future of tomorrow who are begging here in the vicinity of a Metro station for 2 ROTIS.
But law and order have been kept on hold here. In such a situation, it is necessary to remember the Ministry of Child Welfare as well as all those NGOs whose duty is to rehabilitate these children and women in the streets of the capital as well as another part of the country.
Now come to the other side of it. Now a day, there is debate and protest about the citizenship law in the whole country.
But here it is about that aspect of the law in which people of one religion have been kept separate. Or to say that this law has been made to promote only one religion.
When Hindustan and Pakistan became separate countries, then it was announced to create a secular nation in India, following all religions.
. Hindustan, the country of Gandhi and Nehru, has equal faith in all religions. In such a situation, keeping away one religion or promoting another religion spoils its secular image and character.
The issue is not to give citizenship to people of religion other than Muslims from neighboring countries. The issue and opposition are that the BJP government at the center has been doing the politics of Hindutva.
Today, when the big issues like economic slowdown, unemployment, and inflation are dominating in the country, the intention of the government to bring this bill is like diverting the common people’s minds from the mainstream issues.
Now let’s talk about the head line “we are also the people of India”. This line is said by those thousands of Hindustanis or millions of Indians or those poor Hindus about whom the government is not taking care of anything that they need barely and urgently..
If you look carefully at the railway station, metro station, market as well as small children and women and elderly people standing outside the red light, then you must realize that they are citizens of India too. The daily laborers who work all day and sleep on the footpath of the road are also citizens of this country.
These are the citizens from whom the government has taken a U-turn. They have to beg on the streets to fill UP their empty stomachs. You have to work hard day and night to fill your stomach. Small children roam barefoot in winter, summer, rain and to find a space for their livelihood.
Supervisors of the law and order of our nation like Police and other security personnel always watch these kinds of street baggers either at Metro Station or at Red Light but observe them as mute spectators without following the law of this land. Neither they intend to prohibit them from begging nor they desire to rehabilitate them.
There are 4,13,670 beggars out of which 2.2 lakh males and 1.91 lakh females in the country as per the Minister of State for Social Justice Vijay Sampla who said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on August 2015.
West Bengal with 81,244 beggars topped the list followed by 65,835 in Uttar Pradesh, 30,218 in Andhra Pradesh, 29,723 in Bihar and 28,695 in Madhya Pradesh.
These figures are based on the census of 2011.
According to the Indian National Human Rights Commission, up to 40,000 children are abducted every year. The whereabouts of more than 10,000 of them remain unknown.
What’s more, it’s estimated that 300,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and made to beg every day. It’s a multi-million dollar industry that’s controlled by human trafficking cartels across India including the rest of the world. Lawmakers including law-keepers do little to address the problem because they often assume that the children are with family members or other people who know them.
Also, there are inconsistencies in the law on how to deal with child beggars. Even many are too young to be punished.
Today, in most parts of India, the revised citizenship bill is being opposed. And the way the force is being used by the government to protest against the bill, it is necessary to mention that people of different religion except Muslims will come from the neighboring country, but what steps the government has taken for these citizens are some million dollar questions?
It is liberty for the citizens of our country to ask this question to the government. Even after 70 years of independence, there is a lot of difference between the rich and poor of the country. Some capitalists own most of the wealth of the country.
Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer. The benefits of government facilities do not reach the people of the lower classes. Government machinery has fallen into the hell of corruption. We can find the condition of government facilities and government machinery’s help to these begging children and women at every square intersection.
Before entering the metro station, you must find these beggars everywhere telling the reality of the citizens living here. Today more than the citizenship amendment bill, a new bill to amend the livelihoods of this kind of poor and beggars needs to be passed in the parliament.
Employment opportunities in the country are steadily decreasing and inflation is skyrocketing. In such a situation, the government should worry about the citizens of our country. It is not appropriate for the government of a great country like India to distribute people based on religion.
If the government is telling this bill in the interest of citizens, then the opposition is standing against it. The question arises in public that what effect will this bill have on the citizenship of the existing citizens?
By the way, this bill has no negative impact on the existing citizens.
But the opposition and many intellectuals are against this law citing the reason is that this Bill is against the secular ethos of the nation.
The constitution of our country does not allow any such law which is made on religious grounds. The opposition alleges that this law is influenced by the Hindutva agenda of the current BJP government. This is the BJP’s step towards making the country a Hindu nation.
In such a situation, if we talk about the common man, today the rights of citizens are more important than the law of citizenship. Alike, social security of citizens, free and compulsory education, health facilities including employment opportunities are more important and need than any kind of CAA or NRC.
