Beggars to Give Message About AIDS

As per United Nations AIDS agency, India has the world's highest HIV/AIDS infected people. The figure of HIV/AIDS infected people is put at 5.7 million in India. Here in Bihar state of India, where the beggers are plenty, as in any other part of India, Officials in Bihar state are planning to recruit Beggars to create awareness about HIV/AIDS in the state & are planning to pay few hundred rupees to each beggar for their work.

What these beggars shall do, who's estimated strength in the state is 100,000 vagrants, is that, they shall sing songs in trains and buses and beside busy roads, as well as they shall enact street plays about the deadly HIV/AIDS virus. In India, these vagrants can easily be seen in trains, buses etc. singing popular Bollywood / Hindi songs to get some money from the people for their Livelihood. Would you call this planning on the part of State Officials weird. May be or may not be as it is for a good cause......India recruits beggars to curb spread of AIDS

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