Enhancing Livelihood: A Case of Cycle-Rickshaw Pullers in Amritsar city.

Abstract

In India, the livelihood of rickshaw pullers is in a worse state where they have to face severe climatic conditions, poverty, and social values as well as the economic values of the society. This research paper will try to identify the effective socio-financial reasons for rickshaw pulling. The detrimental consequences of their fitness of pullers and the issues confronted with the socio-
economic and personal measures both had been additionally taken into consideration. This study article is based mostly on the statistical data which were collected from the primary survey and the personal interview in the form of the direct questionnaire sent to respondents in Amritsar city. This survey was executed at some key junctions or major intervals in February and March 2019. The studies concluded that although rickshaw drivers are counted as the salient members of the underprivileged community, they hold important positions in the intercity public transport system. The running surroundings are neither regulated nor are their social protection problems forwarded. They are generally uninformed approximately of the government schemes neither release relief for their poverty nor do their availability of fundamental services likewise their poor central
infrastructures.