Beggars Belief

In order to make most from the forth coming Common Wealth Games in India, Indian beggars have started learning foreign languages. Residents of Rohni Lal Quarters, a community comprising of 1200 families of beggars, in New Dehli told “on average every beggar earns 150 to 200 rupees every day. But when there are foreign tourists the prospects of earning 500 to 1000 a day are very real.�
In the forth coming Common Wealth Games Indian organisers are expecting more than one hundred thousand tourists. Indian beggars are preparing themselves for this business opportunity by sending their children to language schools. Raju Sans who runs a temporary language school in Rohni Quarters said an eight years old girl who never enrolled in a local school her parents paid hefty fee to enrol her in his language school so that she could perfect the art of begging in foreign language.