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If you notice my video there is another guy who is selling cleaning cloth before the beggar arrives on the screen. He is one armed but he is not a beggar but the guy has a mobile phone. I have seen so many beggars with mobile phones if not smart phones. The costs of mobile phones have come down drastically and therefore everybody has got one.
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Why not? It is possible. We should do that. When we have vegetable sellers with Paytm, why not beggars? It is just that we need to have little awareness at the ground level. We never thought earlier that petrol pumps will take Paytm but now they do.
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