Beggars Should Work, State Can’t Provide Everything to Them: Bombay High Court

For Homeless people and beggars, the Bombay High Court recently in a statement said that they too should work for the country as each and everything cannot be provided to them by the state. This came into a point when Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed by Brijesh Aarya, asking directions to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to make nutritious meals thrice a day, potable water, shelter, and clean public toilets available for people with no home and poor people in the city, replying to this division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni said that the beggars and homeless should work too.  

 

The BMC enlightened the court on this matter that food packets were being distributed to such people all over Mumbai with the help of NGOs, and also sanitary napkins were being provided to the women from this section of the society. The submission was accepted by the court and the court declared that further no direction is required to raise the distribution. "The people who do not have a home should also work to serve the country. Everyone is working. Everything cannot be provided by the state.

 

The petitioner is just shooting up the population of this section of the society,” the High Court in a statement said. The court also lifts questions on the petitioner, stating that full filling all the prayers sought in the petition would be like an "invitation to the  people not to work". The court, in its order, recognized that public toilets in the city and all over the state currently charge a minimum amount for utilization, and asked the Maharashtra Government to examine permitting homeless persons to use such facilities free of any charge. “We want the State Government to look into the matter and see if the homeless persons can use these toilets free of charge,” the bench said.