Sentences with phrase «rickshaw pullers»

The Dove Foundation uses peer education and street theatre to teach young rickshaw pullers about how they can protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

As the political executive remains stagnated to dig into the irregularities by insurance companies in demanding exaggerated claims against the exact reimbursement of hospital expenses of rickshaw pullers & labourers under RSBY (Rashtriya Swashthya Bima Yonja) from government, the speaker, Shashank Shekhar Bhokta, on Monday orders a special house committee for an investigation into the scam.

Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

Riggs, in the part of the avowed male chauvinist and opponent of women's lib, entered the Houston Astrodome — about as un-tennis a setting as possible — in a rickshaw pulled by buxom models to the theme music from the old Technicolor swashbuckler Captain From Castile.

Any individual with low - income group such as small farmer, rickshaw puller, daily wage worker, domestic help, labourer or micro-entrepreneur etc. can protect their assets and lives under micro-insurance policy.

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Perhaps these are the people that pulled the rickshaws 100 years ago.

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,

The rickshaw - pullers... had complained that the rickshaws were heavy and wanted some changes to be made.