Anyone who has read City of Joy would know, under what circumstances people take up this job and how this profession earns the livelihood for their familes, without which they would be reduced to begging and their woman foks to prostitution. This is indeed a bad thing, especially when its allowed to kick or hit with a cane to push to your human horse go faster. But what alternative is Culcutta government thinking to provide as a livelihood for those poor people, when they will not be able pull their rickshaws? Migration to Cycle Rickshaws? This, in my humble opinion will be a good thing to do.
