CHENNAI: Twenty-nine-year-old mechanical engineer Ashish Sharma has traversed 16,503km around the nation on foot. He started strolling on August 22, 2017, from Jammu and has since lined every primary freeway, arterial street, metro station and mall across India with a message – “prevent giving money to beggars, since you’re feeding now not that kid taking alms but a felony mafia that’s draining them in their lifestyles and dignity. And also rising by way of the day.”
Sharma, who's these days in Chennai as a part of his nationwide marketing campaign, has been meeting with the general public, scholars and government officials to create a brotherhood that pledges towards begging. “My plan is to reconnect with these people in June with educational modules we're proposing to be applied in their respective states,” he says.
While the countrywide march has taken him across Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra , Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and Kerala, the seeds of his passion challenge have been sown at a traffic signal in Delhi five years ago where he got here across a scrawny kid beggar. Sharma took him out for a meal instead and sooner or later befriended him, following which he got here to grasp that the boy — then nine — were trafficked right into a racket.
Sharma got in touch with the kid coverage committee and rehabilitated him with the assistance of an NGO. He went on to rescue 8 kids after that in Delhi, of which six he says have been trafficked. “By the time I used to be rescuing my ninth kid, I spotted that this factor needed now not a temporary cure but a long-term answer. You might spend 3 months rescuing one kid, wherein time about 100 others emerge in different portions of the rustic,” he says. “The answer then lies in starving these rackets of assets.”
In addition to wearing out the 17,000km march overlaying 29 states, seven Union territories, and 4,900 villages, Sharma has programmed a cell app referred to as ‘Duayen’, which runs a network of colleges, hospitals, police stations and government officials that may be tapped into while identifying, rescuing and rehabilitating kids pushed into begging.
“An extended-term goal is to open two-room schools and rehabilitation centres at every railway station within the nation. Railway stations and traffic alerts are high spots for kid beggars, and migration is a significant contributor.”
Sharma, who's these days in Chennai as a part of his nationwide marketing campaign, has been meeting with the general public, scholars and government officials to create a brotherhood that pledges towards begging. “My plan is to reconnect with these people in June with educational modules we're proposing to be applied in their respective states,” he says.
While the countrywide march has taken him across Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra , Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and Kerala, the seeds of his passion challenge have been sown at a traffic signal in Delhi five years ago where he got here across a scrawny kid beggar. Sharma took him out for a meal instead and sooner or later befriended him, following which he got here to grasp that the boy — then nine — were trafficked right into a racket.
Sharma got in touch with the kid coverage committee and rehabilitated him with the assistance of an NGO. He went on to rescue 8 kids after that in Delhi, of which six he says have been trafficked. “By the time I used to be rescuing my ninth kid, I spotted that this factor needed now not a temporary cure but a long-term answer. You might spend 3 months rescuing one kid, wherein time about 100 others emerge in different portions of the rustic,” he says. “The answer then lies in starving these rackets of assets.”
In addition to wearing out the 17,000km march overlaying 29 states, seven Union territories, and 4,900 villages, Sharma has programmed a cell app referred to as ‘Duayen’, which runs a network of colleges, hospitals, police stations and government officials that may be tapped into while identifying, rescuing and rehabilitating kids pushed into begging.
“An extended-term goal is to open two-room schools and rehabilitation centres at every railway station within the nation. Railway stations and traffic alerts are high spots for kid beggars, and migration is a significant contributor.”
A 17K-km countrywide march to eradicate begging
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