You don't see many Cycle Rickshaws these days in Chennai. This is the halfway point between the hand-pulled rickshaws and the autorickshaws. A lifetime behind the wheel pulling this weight makes a Cycle Rickshaw driver's life much shorter. Many of them die from tuberculosis at young age. Cycle rickshaws and hand-pulled rickshaws are banned in many places in India but you still find them in certain pockets in Chennai.
You still find them in Jaipur and Varanasi and even Vrindavan... Yes they are found in some parts of India god are detrimental to the drivers health...
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