Small but significant: Qingqi rickshaws appeal for permits

KARACHI: The All Karachi Qingqi Rickshaw Welfare Association has appealed to the Sindh transport department to allot them route permits.

Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday, the association’s Syed Safdar Shah Qadri said that if the government provides Qingqi rickshaws legal status and allots them route permits, as buses and minibuses have, then they will earn tax in return.

Qadri asked the DIG traffic to stop fining Qingqi rickshaws for not having route permits. “We have been trying to contact the government for legalisation and routes but they are not giving it importance,” said Qadri. There are 15,000 to 20,000 Qingqi rickshaws in Karachi.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 1^st, 2012.