Bhubaneswar: A group of 92 beggars in this city prescribed a success story by selling sticks and brooms, belonging to Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Odisha Patita Udhar Samiti, a non-governmental organization.
They also honed their skills in painting and home decor.
Rehabilitation by BMC as part of beggar-free city campaigns, all 92 of them, included in the disabled category, have been accommodated in three houses where they live, including the Nagar Kalinga Nilaya Rehabilitation Rehabilitation Rehabilitation.
“Most beggars at the shelter’s house have severe psychosis.
They are offered the right counseling and treatment.
We have provided skills training to these people, who show interest in making sticks and brooms of incense.
A city-based organization has trained people This, after that they began selling the product, “said Abharani Choudhury, Samiti Secretary.
He said an artist also taught painting to several inmates in the shelter.
“They have received training on home decor, bottle paintings and tribal art.
We also oversee prisoners at Beggar Rehabilitation Houses, Niladri Nilaya, in Puri.
We have provided the same training to Puri Shelter Home inmates too.
They have started selling their products, Add it.
Choudhury said the money produced from product sales would be stored in their respective bank accounts.
“We have opened a bank account for beggars.
They will feel confident after doing things themselves and make money in a dignified way.
This type of development of skills will make them independently, “he added.
Other members of the NGO said they would take inmates to the same place where they were asking for before.” The inmates will sell their products there on the day of Janmasthami, to be celebrated on Monday .
They can witness their success stories when they begged there in the last Janmasthami, but now it will make money in a dignified way, “he added.