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Beggar rehabilitation scheme launched

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Beggar rehabilitation scheme launched
Government of Tamil Nadu, GODL-India · Wikimedia Commons

On his birthday, Chief Minister Karunanidhi launched a beggar rehabilitation scheme and collected funds for it himself.

Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi launched a beggar rehabilitation scheme on his 48th birthday, 3 June 1971. He collected donations for the scheme from shopkeepers near his residence. He said that begging was an insult not to the person begging but to the society that made him a beggar. The scheme was one of several welfare measures of his first term.

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