LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to give employment opportunity to beggars based on their educational qualifications.
Indra Mani Tripathi, Commissioner of LMC, said, “Based on their educational qualifications, beggars will be given employment. We will also try to rehabilitate the street children.”
Differently abled beggars will be placed in the shelter homes and will be assigned civic duties, added Tripathi. He further added that the civic body was conducting a spot survey in the city and the details of the homeless people would be compiled in two-three days.
Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, recently directed the civic body to identify beggars in the state capital and transfer them to shelter homes as a part of the rehabilitation.
Tripathi said, “The duties given to beggars will include collecting user charges for door-to-door garbage collection from the households in the city. Some of them will be assigned to do daily sanitation work as well.”
Navin Sahu, an LMC worker said that the corporation is collecting details from the beggars. Few people have come forward and volunteered to enroll themselves in the drive. A report will be prepared and sent to the top authorities for further action.