{"id":12904,"date":"2015-08-12T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12904"},"modified":"2015-08-12T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:03:41","slug":"paying-beggars-to-stay-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/paying-beggars-to-stay-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying Beggars To Stay Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/081215_1201_PayingBegga1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pushkaram is an Indian festival that takes place once every 12 years along one of 12 spiritually important rivers. This year it was the Godavari River&#8217;s turn. Kamalakara Rao took a look at an odd challenge the government faced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because the festival takes place so rarely, it is expected to draw thousands of beggars.<\/li>\n<li>To avoid this the local state government announced that those seeking alms would be paid \u20b95,000 (US$ 77) as compensation for lost wages if they agreed to stay away from the event.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest problem was, of course, verification, as relatively well-off people claimed to be beggars in order to get compensation.<\/li>\n<li>Still the idea has worked in the past. In 2000 those seeking alms were given similar financial incentives if they agreed to move ahead of President Clinton&#8217;s visit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"Andhra-Pradesh-offers-beggars-Rs-5000-to-stay-away-from-river-festival\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"Andhra-Pradesh-offers-beggars-Rs-5000-to-stay-away-from-river-festival\">The Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushkaram is an Indian festival that takes place once every 12 years along one of 12 spiritually important rivers. This year it was the Godavari River&#8217;s turn. Kamalakara Rao took a look at an odd challenge the government faced: Because the festival takes place so rarely, it is expected to draw thousands of beggars. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/081215_1201_PayingBegga1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12907,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions\/12907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}