Cycle Rickshaw News – Rickshaw Challenge https://www.rickshawchallenge.com Pure Adventure! Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:07:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://rickshawchallenge.gamblingzion.com/uploads/2019/08/cropped-RC-FB-no-background-32x32.png Cycle Rickshaw News – Rickshaw Challenge https://www.rickshawchallenge.com 32 32 The Rickshaw Bank https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2014/02/20/the-rickshaw-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-rickshaw-bank https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2014/02/20/the-rickshaw-bank/#respond Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:51:00 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/?p=11729 The Rickshaw Bank
It was a ride in a cycle rickshaw that moved Dr Pradip Kumar Sarmah and got him into setting up the ‘Rickshaw Bank’. He explained that majority of the rickshaw pullers drive rented rickshaws as they have no access to banks and end up paying the cost of the rickshaw many times over. He started working with the rickshaw pullers themselves to understand their needs, and reinvented the way the rickshaws work, making them stronger, safer, and capable of carrying advertising that would allow the pullers to own their own rickshaws.
Pradip has allowed thousands of drivers to participate in the rickshaw bank, and he is now spreading his methods across India. The Rickshaw Bank provides other services to the rickshaw pullers as well, such as, health checkup and educational programme for the children of the rickshaw pullers.

Reinventing the Rickshaw to Drive Social Impact

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Omur Black takes us to the narrow laneways of London late at night when an army of rickshaw drivers look for customers as the city’s famous theatres spill their patrons on to the rainy streets. From their base in an autopark underneath Great Portland Street and Russell Square, the rickshaw drivers converge on central London where they battle nightly with the police, who try to move them on. But the law is ambivalent about non-engine vehicles, and dates back to a time when horse-drawn vehicles crowded the city’s streets. And so, it’s a thriving business, bringing a colourful array of rickshaws into an already-crowded city, and cycling their customers around London’s famous landmarks.

]]> https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2012/07/30/rickshaw/feed/ 0 Rickshaws with frills proposed for Commonwealth Games https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2010/06/11/rickshaws-with-frills-proposed-for-commonwealth-games/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rickshaws-with-frills-proposed-for-commonwealth-games Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:25:42 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/rkch/?p=4907 Commonwealth Games's Rickshaw sampleThe humble cycle rickshaw could jazz up for the Commonwealth Games, complete with a driver-cum-tourist guide, newspapers and fruit juices. Around 1,000 battery-operated rickshaws will be on call during the event if a proposal with the Delhi government comes through.

“The proposal is that 1,000 battery- operated rickshaws should be run in the Commonwealth Games village and the rest of the capital during the Games,” said Irfan Alam of the Bihar-based NGO Sammaan Foundation, which works for the uplift of rickshaw pullers and has mooted the idea.

“We are in talks with the Delhi government and other agencies about this project and hopefully things should come through in the next three months,” Alam told IANS.

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