From the looks of it, he's a beggar in bad shape, but you might not think he's richer than the majority of the middle-class population in India.
Pappu Kumar made a property worth 1.25 crore ($ 185,000) during his 8-year career as a beggar on the streets of Patna, Bihar. It also has cash of around Rs. 500,000 ($ 7,500) in various bank accounts. Now he runs a side business of lending money to local merchants who charge high interest. What is surprising,that this thirty-three-year-old beggar still begs on the streets of Patna.
Life was not very kind for Pappu, an aspiring engineer in his early days when he encountered a serious accident that left him paralyzed, Shortly after the accident his father also passed away and his family disowned him because of his physical condition. He had no choice but to beg for support.
Pappu was never destined for begging and scored 57% in intermediate exams and 72% in math. His dream was to become an engineer, but he never thought that in the future he would earn more than most engineers by begging.
Although, Pappu took up the profession of begging to survive, without time he flourished in it. He set up a small camp at the Patna train station, where he begged for the next seven years. His story from poverty to wealth developed only when the local police stopped him to clear the site for the illegal construction of his begging camp. He refused to change his begging camp, and upon investigation, the police found that he has many bank accounts, two lots (2,000 square feet each), and has already lent more than Rs. 10,00,000 to different local merchants at high interest rates.
This came as a shock to the police department and they were amused that he was still begging, Even after repeated requests from the police, he refused to give up his profession and continued to beg on the streets of Patna. also, he refused to seek medical help to heal. Their simple logic is that you won't be able to keep begging if you get in shape. What does it say?
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