JAIPUR: The state’s social justice and empowerment department has written to all the district collectors to conduct a survey to identify beggars to be rehabilitated for implementation of the beggar-free scheme in the whole state, an official of the department said.
At present, the state government’s beggar-free scheme is in operation only in Jaipur city. As announced in the state budget by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, 100-bedded capacity rehabilitation centres would be built in all the 33 districts. “We have instructions to all the districts to conduct a survey for identification of beggars in their respective districts. The expression of interest (EOI) has been issued and we have invited proposals from all districts,” said a senior official at the social justice and empowerment department.
