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ISE Presentation: Rickshaw Pullers: Arun - Hari

This document summarizes the challenges faced by rickshaw pullers in India. It notes that there are approximately 8 million rickshaw pullers in India, 95% of whom are victims of high daily rental fees to hire rickshaws. This makes it nearly impossible for pullers to ever own their own rickshaw. The document outlines the costs associated with hiring, owning new and used rickshaws. It also describes the regulatory framework around rickshaw licensing in Delhi and penalties for unlicensed rickshaws. Finally, it briefly discusses some initiatives to support rickshaw pullers through programs like rickshaw banks and solar-powered rickshaws.

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ISE Presentation: Rickshaw Pullers: Arun - Hari

This document summarizes the challenges faced by rickshaw pullers in India. It notes that there are approximately 8 million rickshaw pullers in India, 95% of whom are victims of high daily rental fees to hire rickshaws. This makes it nearly impossible for pullers to ever own their own rickshaw. The document outlines the costs associated with hiring, owning new and used rickshaws. It also describes the regulatory framework around rickshaw licensing in Delhi and penalties for unlicensed rickshaws. Finally, it briefly discusses some initiatives to support rickshaw pullers through programs like rickshaw banks and solar-powered rickshaws.

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ISE Presentation: Rickshaw Pullers

Arun |Hari
ProfileP
• Currently, there are around 8 million rickshaw pullers
in India.
• 95 percent of these rickshaw pullers are victims of
high daily rental fees .
• It is nearly impossible to earn enough income to ever
own a rickshaw in their lifetime.
Costs
• Rural migrants in search of work can hire a rickshaw
within hours of reaching the city and start earning
money almost instantly.
• Hiring of vehicles from small or big contractors in
Delhi on a daily charge ranging from Rs 18 to 22.
• New rickshaw cost: Rs 6000
• Second-hand rickshaw cost: Rs 800 to Rs 2,000.
Costs contd..
• The Rs 600 hire charge represents nearly one
tenth the cost of a new vehicle or half the
price of a second-hand vehicle.
• Reason : The corporation laws make owning
and hiring a rickshaw a very high risk venture
• This routinely inflicts heavy losses on the
owners for operating in this sector.
Costs contd…

• Like other rental services, they have to bear the cost


of any accidental damage to the vehicle on which
there is no insurance option.
• Unable to bear the cost of a large damage, the puller
is subject to harassment
• He has no choice but to flee the locality.
Regulatory framework: Delhi
• Only one out of 14 rickshaws in Delhi is licensed, as
MCD hasn’t issued enough licenses.
• Article 3(1) of the Cycle Rickshaw Bye-laws of 1960,
Section 481 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act
of 1957:
"No person shall keep or ply or hire a cycle-rickshaw
in Delhi unless he himself is the owner thereof and
holds a license granted in that behalf by the
Commissioner on payment of the fee that may from
time to time”
Regulatory framework: Delhi contd…
• All 'illegal' rickshaws would be confiscated and destroyed(1998
law).
• Until 1997, the MCD charged a penalty of Rs 100 plus store
charges at Rs 3 per day as long as the rickshaw stayed in the
municipality yard.
• In 1998, the MCD raised the fine to a minimum of Rs 300 plus Rs
25 per day as store charges for the number of days that the vehicle
stay confiscated in the MCD yard.
• MCD employees deliberately delay release of seized rickshaws
• Maximum number of rickshaws are seized on Friday and not
released before next Tuesday, thus inflicting store charges of Rs.
125, in addition to Rs 300 as penalty.
Regulatory framework:Delhi contd..
• On an average, it costs Rs 500 to get the seized
vehicle back
• Municipal licensing authority invites applications only
for two months in a year.
• Notifications to this effect are issued in newspapers
but since most pullers are illiterate or barely literate,
they rarely find out about it.
Rickshaw pullers in Jamshedpur
• Average family size of 6 with just 2 people
earning money on an average.
• Major occupations of other family members
-housemaids, rickshaw pullers and contract
labour.
• Children of most of the rickshaw pullers do go
to school ,but most drop outafter middle
school.
Social Profile

1% 1%

30%
<18
SC/ST 18 t0 30
OBC 3% 30 to 55
Muslims 55+
60%
10% 5%
Available Resources
• In Jamshedpur ,most of the Rickshaw pullers
live in Bistupur area around Tata Steel and
Shakti Hotel.
• Kachha houses , which are very small.
• Most do own Television sets and radios but
that’s pretty much all material assets they
have.
Faciltating/hindering factors
• Most of the income is used for food.
• Regular drinking was a big drain on their
incomes.
• The increasing prices are a big worry for them.
• They want their children to study so that they can
take them out of poverty
• Reasons pointed :Bad infrastructure and lack of
interest shown by teachers in government
schools.
Faciltating/hindering factors
• Savings are very low around 5% and that also gets
depleted in the girls marriage.
• Not many have bank accounts but they said that
financial inclusion is increasing.
• Earlier in Jamshedpur , only two persons owned
all the rickshaws
• Now, with the advent of financial inclusion,
almost everyone owns their own rickshaws.
• This started changing around 4 years ago.
Facilitating/hindering factors
• The most common hardship faced is rude
customers, some pay less than the fair price
while some even bad mouth them.
• Policemen also take a small cut from their
daily earnings.
• Their main hope and aspiration is to get out of
poverty and see their children become
successful.
Few Initiatives in the field
• The main initiatives for rickshaw pullers have
been taken by CRD(Center for rural
development).
• The first initiative was the idea of running a
Rickshaw Bank in 2004.
• The central idea is the issue of an asset-based
loan to the rickshaw puller .
• Installments are repayable on a daily repayment
plan with one-year duration.
Initiatives contd…i
• Solecshaw is a rickshshaw which chan be
driven by both paddles and solar batteries.
• This makes it easier for the rickshaw pullers.

Thank you

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