Metropolitan

Plan to rehabilitate city beggars

The government has planned to rehabilitate the real beggars of the capital and a survey will be conducted to know their exact numbers.

"The government is taking programmes only to rehabilitate the real beggars. Not all beggars do beg here to feed themselves. There are so many who are used by a vested quarter and we're trying to find out those who use these beggars," Social Welfare Minister Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid told a press conference yesterday.

The press conference was organised at the PID conference room to brief journalists about the progress made by his ministry in last four years.

Mujahid, also secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, said begging is related to poverty and it can be solved through poverty alleviation.

He said as of now the exact number of beggars is not known, but when the programme of rehabilitation gets underway a survey will be conducted.

Acting Social Welfare Secretary Abdul Karim and Social Welfare DG Hafizul Islam Miah were present at the press conference.

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