Rickshaw Essay

3.0 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

3.1 Broad Objective

The broad objective of this study is to identify role played by Rickshaw pullers in economy considering their pricing strategies.

3.2 Secondary Objectives

• To discourse international economic and political aspects of rickshaw.

• To categorize the factors that affect to the rickshaw fare and to detect the reasons behind increasing of rickshaw fare.

• To analyse competitiveness in terms of national growth, agriculture and touch to the other economic sectors.

4.0 LITERATURE REVIEW

People get engaged in rickshaw pulling for a variety of reasons. In a pitiable economic framework compared to other livelihood rickshaw pulling provides an easy access to the urban informal labor market, which

In the 1930 and early ’40s rickshaw became widespread in Indonesia, Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries. The reason of the rickshaw’s attractiveness is the economic upheavals after the Second World War because rickshaw costs a small amount as it is non-vehicle. Rickshaw was hosted in Chittagong from Myanmar in 1919. However, Dhaka contracted rickshaw from Calcutta, where it was first introduced around 1930. During that time European jute exporters used to live in Narayanganj and Netrokona (in Mymensingh). They first imported cycle rickshaw from Calcutta in 1938 for their private use. The new kind of means of transportation roused great curiosity among the people of Dhaka, who were traditionally used to horse carriages, palanquins and city-canal boats. One more reason of rickshaws being popular is its low costly non-vehicle transportation. Only 37 rickshaws existed in 1941 and 181 rickshaws in 1947. Earlier in 1947, Dhaka was a district town with population of 62,469. But in 1998, the city's population grew over 8 million and the number of registered rickshaws in the city was 112,572. Astonishingly, the city had at least 5,00,000 rickshaws in