Sentences with phrase «rickshaw drivers»

Auto - rickshaw drivers have, however, objected to the guidelines as they effectively ban display of political advertisements on PSVs.

An official from road safety informed that taxi and auto rickshaw drivers need Rs 30 as the registration fee and 50 percent of the premium for the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojan depending on the rules applicable in the respective district.

As reported by The Time of India, the additional transport commissioner, Mr. SB Sahasrabuddhe, has directed all regional transport officers across the state to ensure enrollments of auto rickshaw drivers for pension and insurance plans while renewing permits and issuing vehicle fitness certificates.

The Maharashtra State Department has decided to give pension to the licensed auto rickshaw drivers above 60 years of age.

The initiative will benefit over 17 lakh licensed auto rickshaw drivers and owners, which constitute about 88 % of the state's workforce.

Because the taxi drivers and auto rickshaw drivers are responsible for forming the major portion of the defenseless and vulnerable section of unorganized workers living in the urban areas, the RSBY scheme will take care of their health concerns.

Until that point auto - rickshaw drivers, who are still low - income earners, could not afford the conversion cost coupled with the pricey fuel.

By helping to create a hybrid rickshaw, Enviu «saw a huge opportunity to improve the environment and also to improve the life of the rickshaw drivers,» he said, who are often an underclass in many cities.

In more recent work, Islam often takes a single visual motif as her point of departure, such as a woman distractedly spinning a ring in Dead Time (2000), a girl turning towards the camera and then vanishing in Turn (Gaze of Orpheus)(1998), a group of rickshaw drivers instructed by the artist to sit and do nothing in First Day of Spring (2005), or a cable car receding from its port in Time Lines (2005).

The best of the three on display here is First Day of Spring 2005, a portrait of a gaggle of Bangladeshi rickshaw drivers doing almost nothing until a tremendous call to action.

Finalist Runa Islam, a native of Bangladesh, offers a film of rickshaw drivers sleeping as they await fares and another, slightly more exciting, of a woman slowly tipping china off a table, which we get to see shatter in slo - mo.

Rickshaw drivers perform a still life of suspended animation until a puff of wind disturbs the tableau.

Islam also returns to Dhaka in Bangladesh, where she was born, to film rickshaw drivers resting beside a deserted avenue.

If you are a foreign national, I'd recommend that you use Uber as auto - rickshaw drivers take advantage and charge hefty amount.

IN the streets of Kathmandu, where drug peddlers and holy men compete with shoeshine boys and rickshaw drivers for the tourist dollar, a new trade is springing up.

And nothing wrong with rickshaw drivers making an honest living.

When I visited Amanda in Hyderabad back in 2006, I had my «poverty tourist» moments — being shocked by the slums, throwing up all the time, taking an absurd amount of photographs, crying like a baby when the rickshaw driver ripped us off — but Amanda never looked down her nose at me or chided my efforts, even though a few weeks before she had held a dying little girl in her arms and a few weeks later she would severely burn her leg on a motorbike.

Dilip (Rajpal Yadav), a rickshaw driver in Bhopal, India, lands himself a job at the Union Carbide plant.

Rickshaw driver Manikam struggles to suppress his criminal tendencies to keep his promise to his father in this Tamil cinema classic.

She thinks she finds that in her neighbor Daniel, a rickshaw driver played by Luke Kirby.

A Malaysian rickshaw driver takes a rest on a hot afternoon by dozing off while wearing a baseball cap over his face in George...

In the game, Shaq's full name is Shaq - Fei Hung and is a poor Chinese rickshaw driver turned martial artist.

They are alleged to have planned a long - distance «honour killing» in India from Canada because the victim had married a rickshaw driver, whom the respondents considered unsuitable.

An old rickshaw driver offered us a $ 30 ride back to our hotel... Four or five blocks away... But we decided to skip the old - time ambience for the sake of our bank balances.

Not exact matches

And through the concrete madness of honking horns and beep - beep - beeps, the shuttlecock, the raggedy dog, the yellow - scarved soldiers in green, the docking ships of night and the smog of modernity; silently cruised the noble old cyclo drivers in shorts and rag shirts, bobbing on forever over their chariots — these three - wheeled rickshaws with a large passenger seat at the front, like a bicycle attached to a wheelchair — visions of serenity and melancholy calm.

After debuting almost eighteen months ago, the electric - assist vehicles have been rejected by their drivers («pullers» in Indian parlance, a holdover from when rickshaws didn't have a bicycle attached to the front) as having too much added weight and the batteries being too slow to charge, taking nearly a full day once depleted, Indian Express reports.An unnamed official of the Delhi Municipal Corporation said,

Their study revealed that a hybrid auto rickshaw can increase a driver's income to at least 35 %, due to the money they save on fuel.

It is the Hybrid Tuk Tuk Battle.By converting one million auto rickshaws into hybrids, the living conditions of millions of drivers and their families will be improved and the CO2 emissions drastically reduced.

Bangalore Rickshaw — Xaver Xylophon — A delightful animated video collapsing a day in the life of an autorickshaw driver to four minutes.

Includes six discrete drivers for authentic surround sound and more LEDs than a rickshaw walla can shake a stick at.