Answer the following questions to write a paragraph on 'A Rickshaw Puller'.
(a) Who is a rickshaw puller? (b) Where does he live? (c) How does he support his family?, (d) How does he pass his days?
A RICKSHAW PULLER
The man who earns his livelihood by. pulling rickshaw is called a rickshaw puller. He is, so to speak, a poor day labourer. He carries passengers and goods from one place to another on payment. He hires a rickshaw from the owner on a daily basis. There are a few who pull their own rickshaws. A rickshaw puller is basically very poor. He can hardly afford to live in a good house. So. he lives in the slum to minimize his living cost. A rickshaw puller works from dawn to midnight, but his income is so meagre. He maintains his family with his meagre income. As a result, he has to lead a miserable life. A rickshaw puller usually depends on his daily income to maintain his family. He has no other source of income. Moreover, due to ignorance, he fails to keep his family size small. He maintains a large family with his limited income. In inclement weather, he can hardly pull his rickshaw. He also cannot pull his rickshaw when he falls sick. The day he fails to pull his rickshaw, he has no income that day. In these cases, he suffers most. Sometimes, he along with the members of his family have to starve. Moreover, a rickshaw puller has to work very hard ignoring the severe heat of the sun or rain. The work of a rickshaw puller is very risky in a busy town where numerous buses, trucks and cars run all day long. He has to ride his rickshaw very carefully all the time. Very often rickshaw pullers are not well paid by the passengers. Thus, we see that the life of a rickshaw puller is very miserable.
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