Project ‘RAMBO’: an initiative to improve rickshaw pullers’ earnings

Subhojit Banerjee

Development in Practice, 2010, vol. 20, issue 1, 57-69

Abstract: Rickshaw pulling is a large, labour-intensive, unorganised sector in India, involving 8 million individuals belonging to the lowest social strata. The article describes an initiative to increase the daily earnings of rickshaw pullers by training them to retail branded products, on a ‘bulk-buying retail-selling’ model. The article reports on a project that began with 30 rickshaw pullers in Jaunpur, a semi-urban district of eastern India. Critical issues related to the sustainability and future of such projects on a large scale are discussed.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09614520903436950

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