390/2023
Hon. Wasantha Yapabandara, Attorney at Law,— To ask the Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment,—
(a) Is he aware that—
(i) begging is illegal as per Section 3(a) of Vagrants Ordinance No.4 of 1841 and Section 40 of National Child Protection Authority Act, No.50 of 1998; and
(ii) beggars can be seen at public places and on pavements in the city of Kandy as well as in other cities of Sri Lanka and that there are women holding small children also among them?
(b) Will he also inform this House—
(i) whether investigations have been conducted to check whether those women are drug addicts and to find out whether the extreme drowsiness of the children who are with those women is due to drugging them as well;
(ii) whether there is a possibility to provide school education to those children;
(iii) whether a follow up programme regarding these children has been implemented by the Department of Probation and Child Care Services; and
(iv) whether steps will be taken to build a housing complex for beggars?
(c) If not, why?
Asked Date
2023-11-30
Asked by
Hon. Wasantha Yapabandara, Attorney at Law, M.P.
Ministry
Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment
Legislature
Ninth Parliament of the D.S.R. of Sri Lanka
Session
4
Involment of children for begging in Kandy
Answered Date
0000-00-00
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