The following presentation (one segment) is primarily based on a qualitative research conducted by final year students of Institute of Home Economics on Beggary in Delhi.

2. PARTS COVERED
Frequency of people giving alms
• Result, Conclusion, Implications
Preference to particular beggars
• Result, Conclusion, Implications

4. 1. GENERAL
▪ To study the phenomenon of begging
▪ To determine various socio-economic factors why people go for begging
▪ To determine the association of begging with other factors like religion,
poverty etc.
▪ To analyse the positive and negative effects associated with beggary.
2. SPECIFIC
▪ To observe and understand the opinion of society towards begging
▪ To find out the reasons behind why people give or choose not to give alms
to the beggars.

5. Tools used:
▪ Data from 40 samples collected through: Questionnaire
▪ Qualitative data to be collected in the field from 5 Beggars & 5 key
informants through: In-depth interviews
Out of 40 sample Size: 20 (who give alms) Say YES whereas the other 20 (who
don’t give) Say NO
Variables: Different opinions of people
Non – variables: -Area: Chandni Chowk, West Delhi
-Gender: Both Male(20) & Female(20)
-Age group: Young adults( 18-35)
-Type of people (Standardized group), on the basis of who
have potential to give money to beggars

6. DIMENSIONS OF BEGGARY IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR- AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
(Neha Tomar Dr. Saroj Choudhary, 2016)
Findings of the study:
▪ The respondents were asked as to whom do they generally prefer to give
alms and their response depicted that majority of respondents preferred
giving alms to beggars who are handicapped, followed by who are in old age.
Only a decent amount of respondents preferred giving alms to child
beggars. There was also diversion between different genders.
▪ Upon how often people in general like to give alms to beggars, the response
of the majority of the respondents was in the affirmative, while a miniscule
amount of respondents said sometimes they give and sometimes they don’t.

7. 1. Frequency of people giving alms
It can be seen that half the respondents rarely give
alms to beggars which again points towards the
trust issues that people have. The above point makes
the premise even more concrete as there is 17.5%
of the population which never gives alms to beggars
Only 5% of the respondents give alms very often.
The rest of the sample size gives alms sometimes.
50%
17%
28%
5%
Very often
Sometimes
Rarely
4th Qtr

8. 2. Preference to particular beggars
The results depicted, disabled people being given the
most amount of alms i.e. 35%. Following it was
women with 30%. Children are still given less in
comparison to the other two as people don’t feel
they are responsible enough and may misuse the
alms. Lastly, elderly people’s preference came about
to 15% of the total sample size.
35%
30%
20%
15%
Diasabled
Women
Children
Elderly

9. Through our research, we inferred that:
• Majority of respondents give alms to beggars very often..
.
• Most preference is given to disabled beggars which ordinarily sounds
good but in the process the practice of begging gets encouraged.
• The data, thereby proves that, the major reasons for giving alms range
from feeling pity to doing charity, good deeds, sympathy etc.

10. 1.
• Steps both at ground level and policy level have to be taken for upliftment of
these people for a better tomorrow.
2.
• Identifying the true needs of these people and inculcating them into institutions
like NGO’S and fruitful schemes to get them out of streets and live a life of
dignity
3.
• Abolishing of begging as a business so as to curb the ways of easy money and
improve the overall condition of this strata.