Mumbai won’t be that easy to travel without Auto rickshaw around the city. A three wheeler vehicle, it carries 3 passengers and one driver. A rickshaw ride is quite an experience. Rickshaw don't have any doors makes it convenient to enjoy the journey with beautiful view around. One utterly love taking rickshaw rides, they are so cheap and fast, and the breeze during evening are soul touching.
Today people are hit by inflation around the world, so India is no exception. Mumbai being one of the costliest cities, it’s not that easy to leave an easy life here. A Rickshawala too has his sufferings in the city of dream many come up with different dream and are forced to take up a job as a rickshaw driver. Many times we come up with such stories while travelling they share their grief with us. Today the condition has really changed its not only because of them it because of us too. A coin has two sides so does their story too have a bright and a negative side.
The Traffic regulation changes time to time like rickshawala has to install a cng kit, to cope up with new regulation .if he fails to do so he has to bribe many traffic police because he is helpless. The conditions of the roads are pathetic so the maintenance cost of rickshaw is not that easy. Something or other thing has to be looked upon. Yes I agree that many of them temper meter and even if they install digital meter they will do the same. The only way to deal with is get better roads and corruption free Mumbai ,but it not possible so easy so we have to take indicative and wait.
They refuse us rides. They show little or no respect for traffic laws. And yet, here we are, hopelessly dependent on them because the government still doesn’t have a better and cost efficient way that can ease our travelling. The government is just helpless when rickshawala strikes, Mumbai somewhere come on a stand still. In past there have been campaigns like ‘Meter Jam’ followed by new rules that should be followed by them. Helpline numbers finally where initiated and now the mass can register complaints against them.
The fact is that today everyone is complaining about them.
Government busy making policy for them.
Union people busy doing politics about them.
Meter jam volunteers campaigning about them.
Tabloids writing about you’re grumbling masala about them.
Rickshawala waiting that someday someone will feel like them and understand the problem they face every day for being a rickshawala.
Just once think about them, Rickshaw is really an appropriate way to travel the crowdy city.
