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| Alleged 'beggars mafia' turning picturesque valley to a 'nightmare' | | | Shakeel A Khan
SRINAGAR, Apr 25: As the state government and law enforcing agencies have failed to put a check on mafia involved in 'beggary', the unbridled entry of the drug addicts and beggars has left the valleyites in feeling of insecurity while the visitors also experience a nightmarish encounter in valley.
With no law of land in place, these beggars and drug addicts have turned the 'paradise on earth' into a hell.
Kashmir valley is one of the major tourist destinations, and tourists rush to here to feel the beauty and charm of the nature that Mother Nature has blessed and Kashmir valley could boast of its peculiarity with the onset of the spring season. And all this helps in the improvement of the economic conditions of the local people but for the past few years the spring in valley bring hellish experience for the tourists and the locals as well as thousands of beggars and drug addicts also throng to valley to make easy bucks.
"Lapses on part of the government have spoiled everything, Shahid Ahmed a valleyite said. Expressing concerns over the swelling number of beggars in valley, he said, "There is no check in place to identify the mischievous persons who make it to the valley disguised as tourists. These people find Kashmir as an ideal place to carry on their business."
Locals also alleged that because of the drug addicts youth of valley have fallen in their trap and have accepted these drug addicts as their role models. "Tourist rush as well as the rush of the beggars has picked up, said Nasir Ahmad from Lal Chowk, further adding, "These beggars do a great business here."
However showing a feeling insecurity, he said, "They (beggars) manage to establish contacts with the locals and at times allegedly get involved in burglaries also." People opinioned this is not small faction of beggars but a mafia seems to have its monitoring and this lobby reportedly gets lion's share out of this trade. Civil society members also observed that it is the foremost duty of the well wishers of the society, parents as well to help the younger generation to overcome this growing pseudo modern culture and to weed out drug menace from this society. |
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