The street dwellers are a migrant community who settled in Pondicherry from the surrounding villages. This population usually engages in rickshaw pulling rag picking to make their ends meet.
The basic characteristic of these people are these:
Unemployment
Poor Income
Alcoholism
Spendthrift
The Street enables them, to carry on a largely alienated and reckless life; cooking eat bathing and sleeping on the streets.
There is no love and real attachment among the members of the same family. When someone dies they keep the body in the street and collect money to conduct the burial rites. It is strange but true that they sleep by the side of dead body. the streets themselves. Homeless people are at increased risk for tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases, trauma, major mental illnesses, alcoholism and its sequelae, drug abuse and dependence, sexually transmitted diseases, and a host of other relatively minor, but nonetheless impairing, respiratory, dermatological, vascular, nutritional, and psychiatric disorders. What is more, the sick and disabled
To meet their needs they steal, sell drugs and do anything that brings them money. They make use of their children for the same purpose.
There is no fidelity or commitment to their married partners.. Once they get fed up or find someone better they leave their partner and live with the other. Their children can live with anyone with whom they like; sometimes even with persons who are not their parents.
Because of the above reason we find with the parents
There have no future plans No worry about their children and their future. On the part of the children No love for their parents. No interest to come-up in life. They have no role model to follow. For both lives is without a goal. When they get something they just don't care to keep it safe. They have no guilt feeling about stealing from others. No ambition to come-up in life. No self-respect. Some are abandoned, and some are trained and left to beg to contribute to their family's survival. For others the street represents an escape from an abusive family or situation. Their work is part of an underground economy and includes, carrying bags, reselling items bought or stolen, and scrounging, as well as prostitution and drug-related acts. They are in no way attached to their families or familiar relationships.
They don't listen to the teacher but do as they want. They steal the food of the other children go out eat and throw the Tiffin-carriers in the street. No school is willing to admit them into their own school because of their deviant behavior.