Battery-run rickshaws are now freely plying many streets

Battery-run rickshaws are now freely plying many streets, lanes and by-lanes in the city despite official ban. Pullers of these rickshaws do always carry with them 'special cards' that are treated as 'unofficial' licences by the on-duty traffic policemen. The snapshot was taken from Kalshi Road of Pallabi, an area infested with this particular type of vehicle — FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam