Amongst the hullabaloo of Mumbai traffic where the cars, motorbikes, taxis, buses and the rickshaws make their existence felt, the most worst are the Rickshaw drivers and the bus drivers. It seems both are at an edge of war with a same motive, "I WILL CHOOSE MY OWN PASSENGERS", they don't wait, they don't want you to alight or they don't want you to get down either, I sometimes wonder what would go wrong if they would wait for a second or two more.
Well taking about RickshawWallahs, we all are facing the same problem everyday these rickshawWallahs don't want to travel to short distance, they just bluntly say no and few of them just ignore us as if they are the one who are ruling the transport industry and we are their loyal servants. Indeed now are the times where we actually feel happy and delighted when we get an auto rickshaw, such were the times when we never bothered getting out of the house thinking we would never get an auto, you stand out of your house and there were rickshaws lined up in front of you to take you where ever you want to go whether short distance or long whether you want to get in to the colony premises or just outside your building entrance. Why ?? is the question you and me ask everyday,what have we done that we have to face such a situation, don't they understand our plight, we might get late for work, someone must be in an emergency ,there are people who may be getting late for their job interviews, people may have to reach to various other destinations they may have to catch flights and trains, are they so INHUMAN that they can't understand such basic importance of time.. on top of it they like arguing with us for unnecessary things..
On the other side when we all were facing such problems one newspaper i.e. "THE MID DAY" along with a radio staion called "radio ONE" took up the initiative of bringing these RicksawWallah to their senses and to help create public awareness amongst us, they went with their petition to THE RTO of Mumbai and told them our plight, the Mumbai traffic police took up the initiative, they appointed various of their officers everywhere especially places which seem to be more crowded especially areas like andheri, santacruz, bandra etc. The reporters of Mid day would go to various rickshawWallah and approach them and if they denied the reporters would make complaints against them and the police officer would register complaints against them and they would confiscate the drivers license and he would have to shell out money from his pocket for fines. After nearly 4 days the number of rickshawWallahs have improved but still there are many others who haven't learn their lessons. I would like to give a suggestion to everyone of you, The Traffic Police of Mumbai is taking the initiative of helping us out kindly please help yourself and others, Create Awareness, tell other people to realize their RIGHT to Object and Complaint, If a NEWSPAPER can take the initiative we are the public of this democratic country lets become one and fight against injustice and raise our voices together like ONE..We have to fight our own battle..kindly make the right choice..
Thank you guys for reading my blogs and kindly please feel free to post your comments on my blog.. thank you !!!
P.S.: in order to register your complaints against the rickshawWallahs kindly dial 022-24937755.
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