rickshaw pullers – Rickshaw Challenge https://www.rickshawchallenge.com Pure Adventure! Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:51:00 +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 rickshaw pullers – 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

]]> https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2014/02/20/the-rickshaw-bank/feed/ 0 Rickshaw Walk in Chandni Chowk, Delhi https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2012/09/25/rickshaw-walk-in-chandni-chowk-delhi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rickshaw-walk-in-chandni-chowk-delhi https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2012/09/25/rickshaw-walk-in-chandni-chowk-delhi/#respond Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:21:22 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/?p=9767 Rickshaw Walk

On a rickshaw from Jama Masjid to Sisganj Gurudwara in Chandni Chowk, Delhi – oldest part of the Indian capital. The place is full of lanes as thin as it can get. And yet they manage to fit a full fledged market in there. The rickshaw pullers have mastered the art of navigating their three wheeler through the market, it’s shops, vendors, people, motorcycles and other rickshaws. A bungee jump still has a harness attached to you.
Film by by Kunel Gaur

]]> https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2012/09/25/rickshaw-walk-in-chandni-chowk-delhi/feed/ 0 Delhi’s rickshaw pullers may get biometric badges https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/14/delhis-rickshaw-pullers-may-get-biometric-badges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=delhis-rickshaw-pullers-may-get-biometric-badges https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/14/delhis-rickshaw-pullers-may-get-biometric-badges/#respond Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:28:41 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/rkch/blog/?p=1619 Rickshaw pullers in the capital may soon get biometric badges after being trained in traffic rules to regularize their movement instead of banning them altogether.
The Delhi government put forth the proposal in the Delhi High Court while filing the minutes of a meeting with the Lieutenant Governor of the city. It said that with the introduction of biometric badges, the number and authorisation of cycle rickshaw pullers could be checked on a regular basis.
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]]> https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/14/delhis-rickshaw-pullers-may-get-biometric-badges/feed/ 0 Protesting rickshaw pullers refuse rides to govt employees in Allahabad https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/11/protesting-rickshaw-pullers-refuse-rides-to-govt-employees-in-allahabad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=protesting-rickshaw-pullers-refuse-rides-to-govt-employees-in-allahabad https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/11/protesting-rickshaw-pullers-refuse-rides-to-govt-employees-in-allahabad/#respond Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:00:39 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/rkch/blog/?p=1558 “This service is not available for government employees”, read the handbills that have been pasted on hundreds of rickshaws in Allahabad. To protest against the government’s nonchalance to their demand of special rickshaw parking zones and night shelters, around 20,000 rickshaw pullers in the city have refused to give a ride to government employees.
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]]> https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/11/protesting-rickshaw-pullers-refuse-rides-to-govt-employees-in-allahabad/feed/ 0 Police pulled up for ‘insensitivity’ to rickshaw pullers https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/09/police-pulled-up-for-insensitivity-to-rickshaw-pullers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=police-pulled-up-for-insensitivity-to-rickshaw-pullers https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/09/police-pulled-up-for-insensitivity-to-rickshaw-pullers/#respond Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:32:16 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/rkch/blog/?p=1522 The Delhi High Court Tuesday pulled up Delhi Police for being “insensitive” towards rickshaw pullers in a bid to make the capital a “world class city”.
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]]> https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/09/police-pulled-up-for-insensitivity-to-rickshaw-pullers/feed/ 0 Five solar rickshaws to go on-road https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/07/1446-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1446-2 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2009/12/07/1446-2/#respond Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:48:31 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/rkch/blog/?p=1446 The municipal corporation here has shortlisted five rickshaw pullers of the city for allotting them solar-cum-battery operated rickshaws. These will be allotted on Wednesday at a formal ceremony.
A total of 10 solar rickshaws will be launched, though five more pullers are yet to shortlisted by the civic body, which is the nodal agency of the UT administration for launching the scheme.
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