The authorities in Bangladesh's city of Chittagong say they will pay beggars a daily wage to keep them off the streets during next month's Cricket World Cup. Mayor Mansur Alam said some 300 disabled beggars would be paid about eighty rupees a day for three months to compensate them for their loss of earning. The decision comes days after the government proposed to move all the beggars in the capital Dhaka to welfare centres until the World Cup was over. Bangladesh is co-hosting the World Cup along with India and Sri Lanka.