ABSTRACT
Migration has been considered an important aspect of regional development and important aspects of eradicating rural and urban poverty. In the cities, it has been generally seen that migrants have belonged to different occupational categories, that is, skilled, unskilled, and semi-skilled. The majority of them are not well educated or does not poses skill in urban cities like Delhi. According to the Census of India (2001), 2.22 million in-migrants entered in Delhi during 1991–2001 from mainly neighboring states of Delhi. A significant proportion of them got employment in the urban informal sectors such as construction workers, cycle rickshaw pulling, small hotels or motels, and roadside dhabas. Many unskilled in-migrants opted cycle rickshaw as an instant occupation for livelihood. This occupation is providing livelihood for more than 8 lakh migrants. Cycle rickshaw pullers are one of the highly neglected segments of the migrant population in Delhi. Many of them suffer from multiple derivations. This chapter mainly explores the problems and prospects of in-migrants’ population in Delhi engaged in the cycle rickshaw occupation particular to the rickshaw-pullers. The analysis is mainly based on the empirical findings which relate that many in-migrant persons in this occupation are continuously facing multiple deprivations.
