The phenomenon of Street children is neither new nor confined to any particular region. Different societies, have over the decades been responding to the situation in their own styles. While at some places the problem is being tackled in a systematic manner, in many other situations the responses have just been ad hoc. The mental makeup of an adult is to a substantial extent the product of the environment in which he or she has grown as a child. Differences in attitudes to life, personal traits, value system and even skills can often be traced back to physical and socio-economic milieu surrounding of the child in its formative years. Factors like the availability or lack of protective family care and affection, of various necessities and luxuries and access to various facilities like education, health- care, recreation etc all have a contribution to make towards the growth of a person’s personality and shape his or her future life.