• Vaibhav Agarwal
• Hadiya khan

The phenomenon of street and begging children is an offshoot of complex interplay of various factors in India. The phenomenon seems to have acquired a gigantic dimension in the wake of rapid industrialization and urbanization. The large-scale presence of street and working children is a symptom of the disease that is widespread due to exploitative structure, lopsided development and iniquitous resource ownership. Other parameters contributing to its presence in India are large-scale unemployment, rapid urbanization, rapid population growth, extreme poverty, increasing disparities in wealth, cutbacks in government social and educational budgets, high level of child abuse by the parents/society and a breakdown of traditional family and community structures. Human migrations from rural to urban areas have contributed significantly to a substantial increase in the number of street and child beggars. Consequently children are forced to live on the streets and earn a livelihood for themselves and also support their families. Hence the research article focuses on various enactments made by Indian government to protect these children from begging and other street works and to provide them a compulsory education. These enactments are referred as usage but still there is a wide spread ignorance of such provision and laws made by the government to provide compulsory education to children at the age between 6 to 14 years. The research is based on the status and the level of exploitation that is occurring in India and also puts forward a question that even after many laws, policies, schemes, enactment in favor of child education there are still some categories of children that remain uneducated .The research article also provides various steps that can be taken to stop such phenomenon of child begging and child working in streets, instead providing the necessary education to the fullest to such children.

Begging, Child beggars, Street Children, Poverty, Policies, Schemes, Government and Education.

"Education of Street Child and Child Beggar.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.95-104, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903717.pdf

"Education of Street Child and Child Beggar.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp95-104, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903717.pdf