 statement of objects and reasonsthere are millions of children particularly in the urban areas of the country who subsist on ragpicking they collect waste-papers, waste plastic material and metal scraps, etc thrown by the households and traders in the dustbins or littered in-the streets, roads, etc and then sell their collections for few tupees to the kabadiwallahs every day who thrive on their labour these helpless children are paid lowly for their waste collections many of the ragpicking children do this job to support their poor families as they are unable to get any other job for various reasons many of them are forced to do this job either by the compelling circumstances or by their alcohol addict or drug addict parents/guardians a number of tagpicking children are orphans who subsists on this profession these ragpickers work under pathetic and unhygenic conditions they wake up early in the morning and rush to one dustbin after another full of garbage and dangerous virus they collect the refuse from the stinking garbage dumps and contract dangerous diseases like tb, hepatitis, plague, respiratory diseases and even cancer, undeterred they carry on this job till they are eliminated from this cruel world many of them though talented remain illiterate and always remain hand to mouth, they do not even get two square meals and a pair of clothes to wear they always live in abject poverty similarly, there are vagabond street children who do nothing except roaming aimlessly they belong to poor families who have no means to send them to schools many of the vagabonds have skill, productivity and ingenuity but they have no means to show it to the world : it is true that in a welfare state like ours the children must enjoy their childhood they should get nutritious diet, good education and training and good atmoshphere so that they may grow as responsible citizens since the families of the ragpicking children or such children themselves cannot afford the luxuries of good diet, education and training, the state must come forward for the welfare of these helpless children for their proper development the government should establish shelters for such children and open schools and training institutes for them wherein apart from free education and training they should be provided dress, books, writing material and other things free of cost so that their future is shaped well hence this bill; new deus; vilas muttemwar november 8, 1999 x! financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides for maintenance of district wise register of all tagpicking and vagabond street children clause 4 provides for the establishments of shelters for orphan ragpickers and vagabond street children clause 5 provides for the financial assistance to the families of ragpicking children, clause 7 provides of the ening of schools and training institutes clause 8 provides for the establishment of ragpicking and vagabond street children welfare fund as regards the expenditure involved in giving effect to the provisions of the bill in the states, it shall be borne out of the consolidated funds of the respective states however, in the case of union (titories, the expenditure shall be met out of the consolidated fund of india the central government may also have to extend financial assistance to the state 'overnments for implementing the provisions of the bill the bill, therefore, if enacted, will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that a sum of rupees one hundred crore is likely to be involved as a recurring expenditure memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause !1 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill which will relate to matters of detail only the delegation of legislative power is, therefore, of normal character 