They are children who have run away from home or been forcibly thrown out, due to conflicts with parents, broken home, ill treatment by family members, or attracted to the city life through the mass media, mainly films. They are either rag pickers, or help out in small teashops, shine shoes or do myriad odd jobs.
None attends school.
Few have good health or future prospects. Many die an anonymous death. Most will eventually grow up to be social misfits and criminal elements created by an uncaring society - or just die in filthy corner or gutter. With love and affection their problems are almost solved , and they quickly begin to act like the normal children they really are. Unfortunately, they tend to be the most ignored members of the population of our planet.