Mysuru: From traffic signals to Railway Stations, child beggars in our country are a ubiquitous sight. While we cringe and complain, a Mechanical Engineer from Delhi is doing something about it. Meet Ashish Sharma, a twenty-nine-year-old techie-turned-child rights activist, who left his job at a multi-national corporation to walk 17,000 kilometres on foot for achieving ‘child begging-free India.’
Sharma, a young professional returning home from work in 2015, saw a lean child with a bleeding hand, begging. Moved by the pathetic sight, the young man took the child home, gave him first-aid, some new clothes and got him enrolled in a nearby school. But he did not stop here. Deciding to pursue this issue, he quit his job and embarked on a journey to cover the entire country on foot to create awareness against child begging.
