Homes for beggars planned

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JAN. 8. The State Government is planning to run some beggars homes on the city outskirts to tackle the problem of beggars at road intersections in the city, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. P. Ramulu, disclosed here on Monday.

Participating in a Meet-the-Press programme organised by the Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ), Mr. Ramulu said the city police and the officials of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad (MCH) were already in consultation with some non- governmental organisations to run the beggars' homes. The city police would shortly launch an anti-beggar drive and remove all the beggars.

The Commissioner, said that the beggars had their areas of operation well demarcated. Any intruder into their area would not be tolerated and recently such a clash led to a murder also. It was not as if people who could not eke out their livelihood were resorting to begging, but many of them had turned professional in the city.

Mr. Ramulu said the city police would also henceforth take up a concerted programme to ensure that there was no disfigurement of walls in the city. Appealing to political parties and organisations not to resort to wall-writings, he said the MCH had also recently decided to get all the walls on main roads whitewashed regularly.

The Police Commissioner made an impassioned plea to journalists to understand the mob mentality and the reasons for the police to resort to mob dispersals. The police were often questioned as to why demonstrators were dispersed especially after they were permitted to hold rallies.

"One should understand that orderly crowds tend to get into mob mentality with slightest provocation from the leaders and when the crowds become unruly mobs, police are empowered to disperse them. It is the duty of every policeman to protect the lives and properties of public", Mr. Ramulu explained.

He advised the people to follow traffic rules and never to overtake the other vehicle unnecessarily. Honking horns unnecessarily was also adding to sound pollution. He said efforts would be made to check illegal plying of seven-seater autorickshaws which were proving to be main traffic bottlenecks. Replying to a question, he said efforts would be made to root out corruption in the police department.

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