This was a paper I gave in partial fulfillment of course on Mass-media and communication.
Eluru (Andhra Pradesh): An inhuman way of living is lived by many of the cycle rickshaw riders here in Andhra Pradesh. The cycle rickshaw is having great demand here. Because the payment very less. The condition of the cycle rickshaw riders are also in pathetic condition. Because they are not organized group. Very often there would be two to three people in a cycle rickshaw. And it is very heavy with such amount of people a rickshaw to pull or to ride. But they do it because it is their livelihood. Mainly there two kinds of cycle rickshaws, and they are one kind is for transportation of the people in the local places and the other is for transporting things such as cements, iron, and wood and so on. Very often people depend cycle rickshaws because they are cheap and they go with out accidents. The rickshaw is very often is not having much maintenance work is the main positive aspect of it and also it has long lasting equipments so we are maintaining says one of the rider from Xavier Nagar.
When an auto rickshaw is paid Rs/ 8 to 9, for per kilometers only Rs 5 is paid to the cycle rickshaw says the old man in the bishop’s house lane. This can be compared only to the rickshaws in Calcutta which are pulled by humans. The weather is very bad here- sometimes it is very hot or as now it is very much raining- and so they have a big job on their shoulder. Most of the school children are also sent in the cycle rickshaw to the school because the rider comes to the house and pick the students to school and after to home too. And says Narayan: “I wait almost all the day and I get only maximum and income of 40-50 Rupees and I have to survive with this income. I have a big family to be fed and three children to be sent to school”.
There are a lot of rickshaw riders in and around Eluru and they are scattered riders. And they are not organized. Fr. Jacob (from Eluru diocese) tried to make an organization but could not complete it, for he died before he could complete it says the old man who rides the rickshaw in the bishop’s house lane. We would like to get a machined rickshaw that they can be good at health, says another rider in the Xavier Nagar. Very often they have to pull the rickshaw for kilometers and then paid less for their work says another rickshaw rider in the same place.
Though many changes have come in Andhra Pradesh, there need to be a fundamental change in the lives of this poor people says man who failed in the latest Panchayath election. And that is the hope of many of these old and unhealthy and uneducated people.
When an auto rickshaw is paid Rs/ 8 to 9, for per kilometers only Rs 5 is paid to the cycle rickshaw says the old man in the bishop’s house lane. This can be compared only to the rickshaws in Calcutta which are pulled by humans. The weather is very bad here- sometimes it is very hot or as now it is very much raining- and so they have a big job on their shoulder. Most of the school children are also sent in the cycle rickshaw to the school because the rider comes to the house and pick the students to school and after to home too. And says Narayan: “I wait almost all the day and I get only maximum and income of 40-50 Rupees and I have to survive with this income. I have a big family to be fed and three children to be sent to school”.
There are a lot of rickshaw riders in and around Eluru and they are scattered riders. And they are not organized. Fr. Jacob (from Eluru diocese) tried to make an organization but could not complete it, for he died before he could complete it says the old man who rides the rickshaw in the bishop’s house lane. We would like to get a machined rickshaw that they can be good at health, says another rider in the Xavier Nagar. Very often they have to pull the rickshaw for kilometers and then paid less for their work says another rickshaw rider in the same place.
Though many changes have come in Andhra Pradesh, there need to be a fundamental change in the lives of this poor people says man who failed in the latest Panchayath election. And that is the hope of many of these old and unhealthy and uneducated people.
Bro. SANIL MICHAEL SCJ
(T04/451)
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