Phuket officials move to provide assistance to beggars, homeless
Phuket officials move to provide assistance to beggars, homeless
PHUKET: Phuket provincial officials are drawing up plans to provide more assistance to the number of destitute people in Phuket turning to begging and those left homeless by the current economic crisis.
Monday 1 March 2021, 03:57PM
Phuket Vice Governor Piyapong Choowong (left) leads the meeting held to ramp up assistance provided to the homeless and beggars in Phuket. Photo: PR Phuket
Phuket Vice Governor Piyapong Choowong raised the issue at a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall last Thursday (Feb 25).
The meeting involved a collection of officials working under the name the Phuket Provincial Begging Control Committee, with the goal of providing assistance to homeless people and those begging to get by in the hope of making them self-supporting.
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The drive to rid Mumbai of beggars will be carried out throughout the month of February according to the directions of Joint Commissioner of Police Vishwas Nagre Patil
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The Mumbai Police identified 14 beggars and sent them to a beggars home in Chembur as of Friday
Mumbai Police has launched the Zero Beggars drive in an attempt to make the city begging free. Under this drive, all police stations in Mumbai have been asked to track beggars and keep them at a special home in Chembur after testing them for COVID-19 infection.
The "Zero Beggars" drive will be carried out throughout this month as per the directions issued by Joint Commissioner of Police Vishwas Nagre Patil to all zonal DCPs.
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Mumbai: In a drive to make the city beggar-free, the Mumbai police has started to rounded up beggars from the city streets. The joint commissioner of police (law and order) Vishwas Nangare Patil has instructed all the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP s) to act against people who indulged in begging.
As a part of the drive, the Azad Maidan police lodged 14 beggars to a beggar s home in Chembur on Saturday. The drive against the beggars will continue entire month stated in the circular which is in possession of the
Free Press Journal. The beggars would be picked up under the Mumbai prevention of Begging Act 1959 and following the COVID-19 test they would be sent to beggar s home in Chembur which has a capacity of 850.