The Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has again come up with a plan to make Pashupati area a beggar-free zone. As a plan, the trust has removed 57 beggars from Pashupati area on Monday in the support of Human Welfare Service Society House (Manav Kalyan Sewa Samaj Ghar) of Bhaktapur.
The trust has already imposed a ban on begging on the roadsides and in public spaces, alleys, temple’s premises and rest houses of the Pashupati area. Pashupatinath area was already announced as beggar-free zone. As a continuing campaign to make Pashupati area a beggar-free zone, works to remove beggars from the Pashupati area began from last Friday evening in coordination with society.
On that day, total 22 beggars were removed from the area. Of them, 15 are male and seven female, said Rewati Raman Adhikari, spokesperson for the PADT. The beggars’ number has increased after lockdown because the PADT became flexible considering the difficulty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic but now the economic condition has improved, and no one needs to depend on begging to survive, he informed.
He further said, “We let a few of the beggars who said they wanted to go home or to rented room go, but others are taken to the Dhulikhel-based home of Manav Kalyan Sewa.” The beggar removing campaign will continue for a week, he added.
Source : TRN,
