Beggars and Begging in Aligarh District

Abstract

The present empirical study aims to analyze the begging activities of beggars in Aligarh district. This work is based on primary source of data, collected through the field survey and direct questionnaire to the respondents in the Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh during 2009. The study reveals that the majority of the beggars involved in this activity by their birth and the preferred time for begging is from morning to evening because at this time they receive higher response of the donors. Almost all the beggars ask both cash and kind as alms. A large section of beggars used direct method of begging. Nearly, half of the beggars visited the places of begging by their foot and remaining half also used bus, cart, cycle, etc. as sources of mode of transportation.