Advisory forthe Protection andRehabilitation of impoverished, Uneducated Children, Women, andDifferentiy-abled Individuals Engaged inBegging Constitution. 5.5. The State to undertake anti-poverty and poverty alleviation measures in prevention and elimination of beggary. They must be provided access to schemes meant for povertyalleviation Legal and Policy Framework 6. 4.2. The State to provide early childhood care and education for children up to 6 years of age whose parents are involved in begging In accordance with Article 45 of the Indian 5. f 5.1. Article 21 guarantees a dignified life to all the citizens and thus, it is imperative for the State to ensure that the people who sustain themselves by begging receive adequate shelter, sufficient nutritious food and appropriate clothing to enable them to live with dignity until begging is eliminated from the society. 5.2. Prevention and elimination of all forms of begging warrants the State to establish an anti-begging framework. This may begin by first drafting a National Policy for the protection and rehabilitation of individuals involved in beggary, followed by preparing and implementing welfare schemes for them with targeted financial assistance, vocational training, poverty alleviation and Collaboration with NGOs, civil society organisations, private sector, charitable trusts, etc. 6.1. The State to provide skill development and vocational training to residents of shelter homes according to their abilities, capabili ties, and preferences. This will enable them to pursue self-employment or wage employment, ensuring they can sustain themselvesand live a life of dignity. 6.2. The shelter homes to collaborate with government-recognized vocational centres endorsed by the State to enrol residents for skill training programmes. 6.3. NGOs/ civil society groups may assist the employment opportunities and continu residents in forming Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and provide assistance in accessing loans for self-employment. ous monitoring and supervision by execu tive actions for implementation of those 6.4. Different departments of the State and frameworks. 5.3. The State to work towards decriminalising begging. 5.4. The State to undertake a sociological and economic impact assessment and thereafter legislate an anti-human trafficking law to curb any racket of forced begging. This law should identify beggary as one of the root causes of human traffick other stakeholders can collaborate to offer skill development training. Since Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be an alternative source of funds, shelter homes may reach out to corporate to facilitate such partnerships. 6.5. The State to explore the possibility of employment opportunities to the individu als engaged in begging, once they have been trained or imparted skills by the ing and insert penal offences against the perpetrators, including cartels and pimps, to ensure complete prohibition of traffick 6.6. After school hours, provision for assistance ing in human beings. The State to also ensure obliteration of beggary or other in studies and homework to be provided. NGOs/ District administration operating similarforms of forced labouras prohibited the shelter homes to call for volunteers under Article 23 of the Indian Constitution. from schools/ colleges/ nearby places and government recognised institutes.