CONTROLLER OF VAGRANCY, WEST BENGAL  

            The office of  the Controller of Vagrancy has been established under  the Bengal Vagrancy Act, 1943. The primary objective of the Department is to provide shelter and accommodation to persons detained under the Act. For  the purpose this Department maintains  ten homes in different parts of West Bengal. The persons detained under  the Act are provided with food, medication and daily necessities of life in  these homes. Total capacity of  these homes is about two thousand persons. At present  there are about nine hundred inmates in these Homes. Apart from staff salary and Home maintenance State Government provides Rs.600/- per head per month for maintenance of  these inmates.

                   To make these persons self-reliant and independent they are given vocational training under  the Beggary Prevention Scheme. These inmates are trained in various trades like printing, tailoring, wood work, weaving etc.

                 To prevent juvenile beggary this Department runs six units in different parts of Kolkata under the eradication and control of juvenile beggary and vagrancy scheme. A total of 300 children belonging to the vulnerable class of  the society are being provided mid-day meal, non-formal education and vocational training under  the scheme.

                  The integrated  street children programme  of Government of India and implemented through various NGOs is monitored and supervised by  this office. At present about 35 NGOs have been running the scheme covering about 12,000 children.

                 This department is also  the sanctioning and distributing authority of the three types pension scheme viz. Old age pension, Widow pension and Disability scheme. At present there are about 7132 pension holders in  these three categories each of whom are paid Rs. 500/- per head per month.

              LIST OF HOMES UNDER THE CONTROLLER OF VAGRANCY

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