Ivanka Trump visit ended, Beggars back to business again

Hyderabad Dec 05: Weeks after hundreds of beggers were picked up from streets and were lodged in the government run shelters the beggers are back again.

After Ivanka Trump visit ended, the beggers left state-run shelters and have gone back to where they came from.

Police in Hyderabad had last month proclaimed begging as an offence and banned people from seeking alms ahead of the November 28-29 visit to the city by the daughter of the US president Donald Trump. But after a month, the government-run shelters where the beggars were lodged on being removed from the streets are mostly empty with the inmates going back to where they came from.

"Now, only 10 female beggars are left with us in the Cherlapalli shelter. In the Chanchalguda shelter, only 30 beggars are left. All the remaining left the within no time," K Arjun Rao, superintendent of the Cherlapalli open air jail and in-charge of the Anand Ashram shelters that housed the beggars within the Cherlapalli and Chanchalguda jail premises ahead of Trump's visit, said.