Rajasthan govt launches skill-training campaign to make state ‘beggar-free’

Team Udayavani, Feb 5, 2021, 2:00 PM IST

Jaipur: The Rajasthan government has launched a campaign to make the state ‘beggar-free’ by rehabilitating beggars.

Currently, 43 beggars who were living in Jaipur, are being skill-trained and will later be provided with jobs, Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation Chairman Niraj Kumar Pawan said. Once the campaign succeeds in Jaipur, it will be taken to other districts, he added.

It is said that the beggars are made to wake up at 5, get tea at 7, breakfast at 8 then undergo yoga sessions for an hour following which they receive lunch at 12.

The initiative is a part of the Chief Minister’s BHOR scheme – Bhikshu Orientation and Rehabilitation for poor and homeless people. Under this campaign, the beggars will be kept for three and a half months and shall be imparted skill training. The aim of the campaign is to give them a dignified life.