Editing Pulled rickshaw (section)

=====Legislation=====
In Tamil Nadu, in 1974, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Government of M . Karunanidhi officially banned the operation of Hand Pulled Rickshaws in Tamil Nadu by replacing them with pedal Rickshaws .

In August 2005, the Communist government of [[West Bengal]] announced plans to completely ban pulled rickshaws, resulting in protests and strikes of the pullers.<ref>WebIndia, 2005.</ref> In 2006, the chief minister of West Bengal, [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharya]], announced that pulled rickshaws would be banned and that rickshaw pullers would be rehabilitated.<ref name="Trillin97">{{cite magazine |last=Trillin |first=Calvin |date=April 2008 |title=Last Days of the Rickshaw |url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/kolkata-rickshaws/calvin-trillin-text |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319154322/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/kolkata-rickshaws/calvin-trillin-text |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 March 2008 |magazine=[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]] |volume=213 |issue=4 |page=97}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Calvin Trillin of ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'' stated in a 2008 article that the city government has not decided how rickshaw drivers would be rehabilitated, nor has it settled on a date regarding when the government would decide. Trillin added that many high West Bengal officials made statements saying that rickshaws would be banned from 1976 to 2008.<ref name="Trillin104">{{cite magazine |last=Trillin |first=Calvin |date=April 2008 |title=Last Days of the Rickshaw |url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/kolkata-rickshaws/calvin-trillin-text |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319154322/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/kolkata-rickshaws/calvin-trillin-text |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 March 2008 |magazine=[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]] |volume=213 |issue=4 |page=104}}</ref>|group="nb"}}
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Rikshaw voortgetrokken door een chinese man Medan TMnr 10013835.jpg|thumb|A Chinese man posing next to his rickshaw, [[Medan]], Indonesia 1936]]