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The document discusses the issues faced by rickshaw pullers in India and the work of SammaaN Foundation to address these issues. SammaaN Foundation aims to improve the socio-economic conditions of rickshaw pullers through training, financial support, and an innovative rickshaw design that allows for advertising space to generate additional income. The study aims to evaluate the impact of SammaaN Foundation by comparing the lifestyle factors of rickshaw pullers working with the foundation versus outside of it.

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Sammaan Case

The document discusses the issues faced by rickshaw pullers in India and the work of SammaaN Foundation to address these issues. SammaaN Foundation aims to improve the socio-economic conditions of rickshaw pullers through training, financial support, and an innovative rickshaw design that allows for advertising space to generate additional income. The study aims to evaluate the impact of SammaaN Foundation by comparing the lifestyle factors of rickshaw pullers working with the foundation versus outside of it.

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Paper Title:

Sustainable Transportation: A way forward for Rickshaw Pullers with SammaaN Foundation 5b Bhawna Anjaly & Arun Sahay bhawna.anjaly09@bimtech.ac.in

Track Title: Names of Authors: Contact details of Main Authors: Affiliation of Main Author:

Birla Institute of Management Technology

Track 5b: Sustainable Transport: Innovation and Integration


Authors: Bhawna Anjaly & Arun Sahay

Designation & Contact details Bhawna Anjaly, Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Plot No. 5, Knowledge Park 2, Greater Noida, NCR India bhawna.anjaly09@bimtech.ac.in 919971980904 Arun Sahay Research Dean, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Plot No. 5, Knowledge Park 2, Greater Noida, NCR India asahay7@gmail.com 919971980904

Title of the Paper - Sustainable Transportation: A way forward for Rickshaw Pullers with SammaaN Foundation Preferred form of presentation - oral

Sustainable Transportation: A way forward for Rickshaw Pullers with SammaaN Foundation
In India, cycle rickshaw is a prevalent method of transportation in urban & semi urban areas. It is estimated that close to 2 million cycle rickshaws ply on the Indian roads carrying about 6-8 billion passenger-kms/year (Rajvanshi, 2002). This human powered tricycle is used for small distance transportation. This non-motorized machine is environmentally friendly and may help in reducing pollution. However this century old vehicle has its own problems. This requires extreme physical labour from the rickshaw pullers (RPs). In the long run this is not sustainable for RPs because of the poverty and malnutrition. The efforts have been done to reduce the weight of the rickshaw. Over the years some improvement has happened in the rickshaw but the problems persist. These problems relate to technical, social and economical facets. The technical problem relates majorly to the average weight of rickshaw which is around 140kg. The rickshaw also has some common points of breakages. The social problems relates to their migrants status. Majority of the RPs migrate from rural areas. They leave their home in the search of better livelihood. Thus, contributing to the pool of around 67 millions urban poor (Kurosaki et al, 2007). These migrants have very little education and skills so rickshaw pulling provides an easy job opportunity and an escape from the rural poverty. The social security for RPs is almost non-existent. They are vulnerable to systematic health risks (Begum and Sen, 2004). These create economic problems for them. The economic side of this issue is also a matter of concern. This informal transportation sector provides very less average earning. Most of the rickshaws are owned by someone other than the RPs. Thus, RPs end up giving significant part of their earning to the owner or contractor. These issues need a focused attention. Although there are many studies done on the informal economic activities in developing countries including India but the research on rickshaw pullers is almost non-existent (Mitra 2002).

This study intends to highlight these facets with the help of case-study of SammaaN Foundation. SammaaN Foundation SammaaN Foundation is the largest organization working towards organizing the rickshawpulling sector. The goal of the foundation is to bring the socio-economically downtrodden to the main stream of progress. They believe that by training, capacity building, education and financial support, they can improve the condition of the socially neglected section of rickshaw pullers. To achieve this goal, Irfan Alam, the founder and chairman, SammaaN Foundation came out with an innovative idea related to rickshaw and transformed it into a business model. The rickshaws have been specially designed to keep space for advertising (on the side, front and back panels). For this advertising space, the companies are charged Rs. 10-15 per day. SammaN foundation also sells things like mobile recharge coupons to mineral water bottles through these rickshaws. They have also tied-up with the Banks to open savings account for rickshaw pullers. Objective The foundation wants to see if their operation has helped in addressing all the major issues related to lifestyle of rickshaw pullers. Thus the objective of the study is to identify the main factors affecting the lifestyle of rickshaw-pullers and observe the issues addressed by SammaaN. Methodology The factors have been identified with the help of literature review and an exploratory study. Based on these factors a questionnaire has been prepared. This questionnaire was administered on rickshaw pullers working with SammaaN Foundation and a control group of rickshaw pullers outside the foundation. The responses will be analyzed using SPSS. Then the results will be compared to identify the impact created by SammaaN. Expected contribution The study intends to present the case of SammaaN Foundation as an example of social entrepreneurship. This study also wants to analyze the response to identify the factors which improve this informal transportation sector.

References
Mitra, Siddhartha (2002). "Lessons in Regulating the Informal Sector: The Case of Rickshaw Pullers' Sector in Delhi," Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 45(2), pp.387-94 Kurosaki, T. Sawada, Y. Banerji, A. and Mishra, S.N. (2007). Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Poverty: Socio-Economic Profiles of Rickshaw Pullers and Owner-Contractors in North-East Delhi, retrieved from http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/~kurosaki/rick0702.pdf on 1st February 2012

Begum, S. and Sen,B. (2004). Unsustainable Livelihoods, Health Shocks and Urban Chronic Poverty: Rickshaw Pullers as a Case Study Rajvanshi, A. K. (2002). Electric and improved cycle rickshaw as a sustainable transport system for India, CURRENT SCIENCE, Vol. 83, NO. 6

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