印度清理街頭乞丐 MBA高學歷海歸赫然在列

Two middle-aged women, who speak English and claim to have worked in western countries, are among those caught while begging on city streets recently.

在印度近日展開的清理街頭乞討行動中，兩名講英語、並聲稱在西方國家工作過的中年女性行乞者被抓獲。

Telangana Prisons Department, in coordination with police and the civic body, has picked up and admitted 235 male beggars and over 130 women beggars to Anand Ashrams (special homes) since October 20 as part of a drive to make Hyderabad a beggar-free city.

自10月20日起，作爲保證海德拉巴市成爲“無乞討”城市行動的一部分，特倫甘納邦監獄部門與警方、公民組織一道，將235名男性乞討者和130多名女性乞討者趕往安納德收容所。

"Two women, aged 50 and 44, both natives of Hyderabad, were among some 30 women caught begging near a dargah in Langer Houz," a senior official said.

一名高級官員表示：“在蘭格胡茲聖陵附近乞討的30多名婦女中，年齡分別爲50歲和44歲的這兩個人，都是海德拉巴的原住民。”

To their astonishment, the Ashram staff found that the two women spoke English well.

可讓人吃驚的是，收容所的工作人員發現這兩位女士英文講的很流利。

The elder of the two told the staff that she had an MBA degree, and once worked as accountant in London before returning here. Her son, who was contacted by the authorities subsequently, confirmed this.

二人中年齡較大的那位婦女，自稱擁有工商管理學碩士學位，搬回印度前曾在倫敦從事會計工作。當局隨後聯繫了她的兒子，證實了此事。

The younger woman said she was a Green Card holder and had worked in the US, said K Arjun Rao, superintendent of the Cherlapalli open-air jail and the Ashram in-charge.

Cherlapalli露天監獄的主管、收容所的負責人K Arjun Rao表示，44歲的那位婦女則自稱曾持有美國綠卡，在美國工作過。

"The fifty-year-old woman, who had lost her husband and was facing certain problems, approached a godman, and on his advise started begging near the dargah. Her son is an architect based in the US. The younger woman claimed that she started begging after her relatives cheated her out of her share of the ancestral property," he said.

他說：“50歲的那位婦女的丈夫過世了，她自己也遇到了一些問題，後來遇到了一位宗師，聽從宗師的建議到聖陵附近來行乞。她的兒子則在美國當建築師。年齡較小的那位，在她的親戚騙光了她繼承的祖上財產後，就開始行乞了。”

"After taking undertakings (that they would not beg again) from them, we handed over both women to their relatives," the official said.

這位官員稱：“在收到了擔保書（保證不會再在街頭乞討）後，我們將她二人移交給了她們的親戚。”