A Beggar

A beggar is a person who earns his live hood by begging. Sometimes beggars go from person to person for alms or beg from door to door. Begging is their sole business on which they and their entire family depend. But it is not a profession. Rather it is a serious social sore which creeps into the society and eats up the entire body of the society. It is a social problem because it does not give anything to the society. It is an unproductive activity. It corrodes self-dignity and self respect of the beggars. In the beggar it creates a kind of disrespect to labor. They develop a sense of effacement and laziness. There are multifarious reasons behind this problem. Firstly, Bangladesh is a poor country where 60% people live below the poverty line. Besides. Income-discrepancy is very wide here. Secondly, physical handicap as blindness, deafness, dumbness, lameness, etc. are the causes that compel the poor to beg for their living. Thirdly, unemployment problem is widely here. As a result large portion of unemployed choose begging as their profession. Fourthly, Bangladesh is a land of natural disaster. It occurs frequently in our country which leaves thousands of people rootless, helpless and workless. It eventually forces them to adopt begging as their profession. In our country the effects of begging are (a) the country gets deprived of manpower, (b) the beggars many times get involved in anti-social activities, (c) unemployment rate is increasing rapidly, etc. However, it is very urgent to remove this problem from oue country. To alleviate it, first of all, we have to create enough employment opportunities. Secondly, we have to rehabilitate them. The inactive persons should be provided with old-age pension, etc. Thus we can get rid of this problem.