Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-24 Thread Umesha Economics
November, 2013 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore Hi Umesha, I suspect we need to offer a higher base salary to attract blind beggers away from begging. This is potentially a research topic. Pranav Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessib

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-23 Thread Kannan. C
ent: 19/11/2013, 11:00 pm > To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled.' > Subject: Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore > > > I'm trying to explore the societal and psychological landscape of > b

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-22 Thread Pranav Lal
Hi Umesha, I suspect we need to offer a higher base salary to attract blind beggers away from begging. This is potentially a research topic. Pranav Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinf

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-20 Thread Umesha Economics
2013 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore Hi all, I did some back of the envelope calculations. If we take Rs. 500 per day as a begger's daily income, then said begger earns about 1.68 Lakhs per annum assuming he works all 7 days a week. I assumed that 2 Lakhs would be s

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-20 Thread Pranav Lal
Hi all, I did some back of the envelope calculations. If we take Rs. 500 per day as a begger's daily income, then said begger earns about 1.68 Lakhs per annum assuming he works all 7 days a week. I assumed that 2 Lakhs would be sufficient insentive for said begger to quit begging and move to a mor

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-20 Thread Vivekananda Doddamani.
lly government must take >> > full >> > responsibility. Yes, begging should be discurraged by all. >> > -Original message- >> > From: Syed Imran >> > Sent: 19/11/2013, 11:00 pm >> > To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-19 Thread mahendra
responsibility. Yes, begging should be discurraged by all. > -Original message- > From: Syed Imran > Sent: 19/11/2013, 11:00 pm > To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled.' > Subject: Re: [AI] Bli

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-19 Thread mukesh jain
t take full > responsibility. Yes, begging should be discurraged by all. > -Original message- > From: Syed Imran > Sent: 19/11/2013, 11:00 pm > To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues > concerning > the disabled.' > Sub

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-19 Thread Neerajsaxena
ia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled.' Subject: Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore I'm trying to explore the societal and psychological landscape of blindness, begging and charity - hence the below questions. Please skip over to the

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-19 Thread Syed Imran
ia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore Good work avinash. Last year I got an opportunity to meet a blind person who was bagging at hanuman temple rajkot gujarat. I talked to him for 15 to 20 minutes. He was intelligen

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-19 Thread Neerajsaxena
you? -Original message- From: muruganandan.k Sent: 19/11/2013, 5:50 pm To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore hello friends, if I may add something to this discussion... What we are

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-19 Thread muruganandan.k
hello friends, if I may add something to this discussion... What we are experiencing in Indian societies is much paradoxical and quite strange A blind person who is begging is able to earn within a day more than what a hard-working blind person can get in a week. The society, which sympathizes

Re: [AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-19 Thread ishita kapoor
Good work avinash. Last year I got an opportunity to meet a blind person who was bagging at hanuman temple rajkot gujarat. I talked to him for 15 to 20 minutes. He was intelligent and 12th pass. He said that bagging is my business. And I am happy with it. I can earn 500 per day in this business wit

[AI] Blind Beggars in Banglore

2013-11-18 Thread avinash shahi
Dear All Nobody wants to begg, but hunger and burning stomach compell many to do so. We should respect these blind beggars, who are in absense of any elementary support by family and the state are compelled to begg for alms. they are fighting for bare minimum.There are thousands who are forced to b