For Ivanka Trump, Hyderabad streets to be free of beggars

HYDERABAD: Worried perhaps of what Ivanka Trump might get to see on Hyderabad's streets during her visit later this month, the police on Tuesday banned begging on the streets.

Ahead of the Global

Entrepreneurship

Summit (GES), for which hundreds of foreign dignitaries are are likely to turn up, in the city, authorities are replacing manholes, repairing roads and giving a fresh coat of paint to the venue in HiTech City .

But the biggest surprise came in the form of a written order by Hyderabad police commissioner

M Mahendar Reddy

, who issued a notification prohibiting begging in the city. I vanka, advisor and daughter of the

United States

President Donald Trump, will address a session during the November 28-30 global summit. After the GES gets over, thousands of

NRI Telugus

will converge in the city for a five-day World Telugu Conference from December 15. Interestingly, the ban order shall be in force from 6am on Wednesday to 6am on January 7, 2018.

In the notification, which was issued for the first time in recent times, the commissioner said: Begging alms and also employing children and handicapped for begging in public places and at the main road junctions in the city of Hyderabad by causing inconvenience, annoyance, danger and safety of the vehicular traffic and pedestrians, is prohibited. “They are also employing children and handicapped persons to seek alms at the main junc tions of roads. Such acts are causing annoyance and awkwardness by ex posing in an indecent manner to divert the at tention of the vehicular traffic as well as pedestrians and public in genes ral to induce them to give I alms. These acts are dangerous to the safety of the vehicular traffic and public in general,'' the notification says.Officials citied Sec tion 144 of CrPc to prohi bit begging.

“Any person viola, ting this order shall be li able for punishment under Section 188 of the Inr dian penal code and as per the provisions of Hy derabad City Police Act, 1348 Fasli, TS Prevention of Begging Act, 1977 and J.J. Act 2000,“ the officials said.

A similar rule was en, forced in the city several years ago, when then US President

Bill Clinton

arrived,with the then municipal authorities shifting beggars away from the road junctions across the city.