♦ The permits were granted after an online lottery which was webcast live by RTO officials ♦ CCTV cameras monitored the entire process for transparency
A post-graduate in history was among the 32,000 Mumbai metropolitan residents who received permits to ply new autorickshaws in Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan and Navi Mumbai. The permits were granted after an online lottery which was webcast live by the RTO. CCTV cameras monitored the lottery process for transparency.
Khar resident Shivshankar Mishra, who holds a PG degree from Gorakhpur university, came to Mumbai in 1985. "I used to work as a clerk with a stock broking firm in Andheri before becoming an auto driver in 1994," he said, adding that despite his qualifications, he had to settle for the profession he did as there were not too many jobs available back then.
Claiming he enjoyed being an auto driver, Mishra said his profession in no way affected the quality of education his two daughters and his son received. Brijesh, Mishra's only son, is a chartered accountant in a South Mumbai firm. "I will soon give up the khaki uniform worn by drivers and don the white shirt and pant worn by owners," Mishra said, proudly.
Ashok Yadav, 43, Prem Sagar, 44, Devendra Nadar, 32, also received autorickshaw licenses in the lottery. All of them have passed Class X. Yadav, a Kandivali resident said, "I will save about 10000 a month on the money that I pay my auto owner today. This will help me provide for my family." Sagar, who has been driving autos in Mumbai for the past 20 years, said: "I never thought of owning an auto some day. The online lottery made it possible for me."
The new, grateful license holders claim they will not refuse passengers. "We will not have to spend on paying the owner. So that will give us a bigger margin and we can take risks," Devendra Nadar, a Goregaon resident who hails from Tamil Nadu, said. More than 1.70 lakh applications were received for the 81,456 autorickshaw permits (for the entire state) that were granted online, the winners declared through a computerised random lottery. Mumbai had received about 75,000 applications at its Andheri and Wadala RTOs.
The chief minister, who heads the transport department, launched the lottery process in a symbolic function. The actual lottery took place at the Andheri RTO.
"We got a tremendous response from some RTOs. However, in some RTOs like Pen, the number of permits to be issued was less than number of applicants," said VN More, state transport commissioner.
"If any winner submits incorrect or faulty documents, they will be disqualified and the waitlisted people will be considered," More said.
A post-graduate in history was among the 32,000 Mumbai metropolitan residents who received permits to ply new autorickshaws in Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan and Navi Mumbai. The permits were granted after an online lottery which was webcast live by the RTO. CCTV cameras monitored the lottery process for transparency.
Khar resident Shivshankar Mishra, who holds a PG degree from Gorakhpur university, came to Mumbai in 1985. "I used to work as a clerk with a stock broking firm in Andheri before becoming an auto driver in 1994," he said, adding that despite his qualifications, he had to settle for the profession he did as there were not too many jobs available back then.
Claiming he enjoyed being an auto driver, Mishra said his profession in no way affected the quality of education his two daughters and his son received. Brijesh, Mishra's only son, is a chartered accountant in a South Mumbai firm. "I will soon give up the khaki uniform worn by drivers and don the white shirt and pant worn by owners," Mishra said, proudly.
Ashok Yadav, 43, Prem Sagar, 44, Devendra Nadar, 32, also received autorickshaw licenses in the lottery. All of them have passed Class X. Yadav, a Kandivali resident said, "I will save about 10000 a month on the money that I pay my auto owner today. This will help me provide for my family." Sagar, who has been driving autos in Mumbai for the past 20 years, said: "I never thought of owning an auto some day. The online lottery made it possible for me."
The new, grateful license holders claim they will not refuse passengers. "We will not have to spend on paying the owner. So that will give us a bigger margin and we can take risks," Devendra Nadar, a Goregaon resident who hails from Tamil Nadu, said. More than 1.70 lakh applications were received for the 81,456 autorickshaw permits (for the entire state) that were granted online, the winners declared through a computerised random lottery. Mumbai had received about 75,000 applications at its Andheri and Wadala RTOs.
The chief minister, who heads the transport department, launched the lottery process in a symbolic function. The actual lottery took place at the Andheri RTO.
"We got a tremendous response from some RTOs. However, in some RTOs like Pen, the number of permits to be issued was less than number of applicants," said VN More, state transport commissioner.
"If any winner submits incorrect or faulty documents, they will be disqualified and the waitlisted people will be considered," More said.
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