IndiaCommutes – a communication channel connecting commuters and auto-rickshaw drivers. ‘IndiaCommutes (InCom) is focussed on solving commute related issues in urban India by using community & location intelligence. Currently doing a pilot in Pune, InCom is offerering Dial-a-Rickshaw service over the phone. In the future same service will be extended over Web and SMS.’ The...Read More
Happened to talk to an auto rickshawallah in Delhi recently. Some interesting insights though not verified. Since they are coming directly from the horse’s mouth,should be generally true: 1.There are 90k auto rickshaw permits in Delhi and new ones are not being issued. 2.One auto rickshaw driver who owns the auto-rickshaw,earns on an average Rs25k...Read More
An autorickshaw driver, who returned a bag containing gold jewellery worth over Rs 3 lakh, was honoured by the police commissioner. Full article hereRead More
The Regional Transport Authority (RTA) will meet this week to give a push to its proposal of providing pension to autorickshaw drivers in the city, which it has forwarded to the state government before the assembly polls. In an attempt to provide some relief to autorickshaw drivers in the city, the RTA had recently taken...Read More
US tourist hitches rickshaw, weds driver in a week: A 26-year-old American tourist travelling in India hitched a ride in a rickshaw last week and married the driver a few days later. Whitney from Chicago met her prince charming in Jaipur in Rajasthan, a state west of the capital famous for its stately palaces, after...Read More
Autorickshaw driver AMAL is content with the small but vital role he serves – driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal’s humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. Now, with only one month...Read More
