December 16, 2014
Rehabilitation package for hand-rickshaw pullers and owners
West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee today said her government has decided to rehabilitate nearly six thousand hand-rickshaw pullers and equal number of hand-rickshaw owners, providing them with ‘Green Rickshaws’ in the metropolis.
Rehabilitation package
“The decision has been taken responding to the demand of those hand-rickshaw pullers and owners, who turned jobless with the ban of this mode of transport in this city in 2005,” WB CM told reporters at Nabanna.
The details of the rehabilitation programme would be drawn out soon.
Earlier, some representatives of the hand-rickshaw pullers and hand-rickshaw owners called on the chief minister demanding their immediate rehabilitation.
State Chief Secretary Sanjay Mitra and Transport Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay were also present in the meeting.
