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[email protected] [email protected] CHILD BEGGING: A MENACE TO INDIA’S FUTURE* ABSTRACT Child Begging is one of the most serious social issues prevalent in the country nowadays. Although India is a developing country and its economic growth and sustainability is been clapped by the developed nations across the globe but it lacks to put embargo on child begging. Though there are various reasons for child begging, the most common among them are poverty, mental and physical disability, lack of primary education etc. Apart from these, maiming of children is the new cause for the growth of child begging in India. In present time child begging is no less than a business because it has been institutionalized by the professional in the field. Children are employed by these professionals and are also paid by them for this work i.e. begging. In present time child begging is becoming a source of livelihood to many persons and also paves the way for increased number of cases of abduction and kidnapping of children to push them into the so called industry of beggary. In furtherance, children are regularly inflicted with wounds, injuries and even maimed so that they become more pitiable and therefore draw more alms from a sympathetic passerby on the streets. For the purpose of prohibiting such activities, the government authorities along with some non- government organizations such as Ministry of Women and Child Development, NHRC, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, respectively have taken various initiatives and launched a number of schemes for the betterment of such under privileged children.