LUCKNOW, March 10 -- The district administration may have succeeded in getting major intersections free from child begging, but the fact remains that many child beggars may have outsmarted the authorities by changing their location. They've relocated themselves away from junctions to spots that are usually out of the enforcing agency's eye.

A reality check performed by photojournalists and a scribe of this daily revealed that many of the beggars had moved out of the busy Hazratganj, Polytechnic, IGP, Lal Batti and Charbagh Crossings to Burlington Crossing, and outside prominent tea stalls and eateries in Gomti Nagar, Lalbagh and Aminabad.

Apart from children made to beg, even transgender beggars often harass commuters near Bangla Bazar ...