A Rickshaw Puller
A rickshaw puller. Perhaps. India is the only country where the rickshaw plays an important role in the field of transport. It is the easiest means of transport in our country. There is hardly any place in India where rickshaw pullers and rickshaws arc not found. They are largely seen in the street of Delhi city. It has been seen in the last report of the Delhi Municipal Corporation that more than 6 lakhs of rickshaws ply in the streets of the Delhi Metropolitan City.The poor section of the people in our country find it easy to pull rickshaws to maintain their livelihood. A rickshaw puller is mostly a young man. He doesn't need much training to carry on his profession. Poor villagers who come in towns for employment generally take this profession. .
A rickshaw puller usually gets up early in the morning and goes down in the street with a rickshaw to carry passengers from one place to another. In all weathers. whether it is good or bad, he is seen carrying passengers. He has no holidays. The days he doesn't work he has to starve.
Though a rickshaw puller pulls his rickshaw from morning till night, he leads a very poor and hard life. He lives in a swampy and slum area, which is unhealthy and unhygienic. As such he and his children often suffer from various diseases. He can't afford to buy good food and clothes for himself and his family for want of money. The money he earns is spent mostly for buying his daily food. Thus'his life is full of sorrows and sufferings.
He suffers greatly when he can't go to work because of illness. At that time, the whole family suffers tremendously Considering his services to the middle class people who generally go by rickshaw, we should do something to improve his lot.
