Mangalore: About one hundred (100) auto-rickshaw owners and drivers, due to participate in the first ever state-level meet of such drivers on May 31 at Bangalore, had a demonstration rally in the city today, May26.
Inaugurating the rally, at the Central Market area, Sunil K. Bajal, their DK unit president, informed people that such a state convention was necessary to pressure the pathetic lives of these poor auto-rickshaw drivers in small towns.
He asked for a Welfare Board for them, as they had meager incomes. He demanded housing sites and BPL food cards for them from the Govt. of the state.
The 2-day event is held under the aegis of CITU. The rally will discuss the auto rickshaw drivers’ day-to-day problems of maintaining and operating their vehicles to earn their bread.
L T Suvarna of Federation of AD Unions, Karunakar Shriyan of CITU and others joined the rally.