In a busy small town, the midday heat is rushing by without the flow. There are passenger vehicles and people coming to the city from the shopping villages on the dusty highway. A (City Safari) e-rickshaw is parked in a corner of this busy city.

Once upon a time driving e-rickshaws used to earn up to 3500 a day, now I hardly earn 6-700 Passengers are waiting, Chetraj Basnet (61) of Mechinagar-7. Basnet is the one. Those who bought e-rickshaws in this brick town were dominated only by manual rickshaws. Battery-powered e-rickshaws appeared on the highway only sporadically. I bought this e-rickshaw around 72 years ago. At that time, the city was dominated by pedal wheeled rickshaws . There were no battery-operated devices,' he said from inside the e-rickshaw, 'e-rickshaws should not be put here. That was the time when the rickshaw pullers were raising their voices that our livelihood would be taken away. As he said, battery-powered e-rickshaws were introduced in Nepali cities after 2070. At the time the rickshaw pullers were raising their voice that e-rickshaws should not be introduced. In the changing times, changing environment and convenience consumers, some of the rickshaw pullers did not work . E-rickshaws have arrived in the city. The rickshaw pullers fled after wiping their sweat. And the number of these e-rickshaws kept increasing. 

Pedal rickshaw pullers have disappeared . Chetraj Basnets entered the city . Today Basnet has been ferrying passengers on the city's inner roads and highways for a decade and has earned between 2500 and 3500 rupees a day by driving e-rickshaws. There was a time when he would come to the brick kiln town in a blink of an eye. He used to drive the e-rickshaw till the evening light. When he reached home in the evening, he had more than two thousand in his pocket.

But, today's time is not like that . Petrol-free cars have arrived in the city. E-rickshaws have also been added to the number of fingers. The East-West Highway has been demolished to make the Asian Highway. He used to earn up to 3500 rupees a day by earning e-rickshaws, but today he barely saves 5-600 rupees a day. In which he is satisfied . Even in that the road has deteriorated like this. When the road itself deteriorates, the e-rickshaw also deteriorates. It costs me 5-600 rupees to make it in two-three days,' he lamented with a look of disappointment on his face, 'it is very difficult for us to eat. Who will listen to our pain?' But these days e-rickshaws have been added to the city beyond counting. Most of the e-rickshaw drivers do not have a license. Just like Basnet, who has been driving e-rickshaw continuously for 72 years, doesn't have it . I am old. When I was driving e-rickshaws, there was not much search for a license,' he says, 'as the number of e-rickshaws increased, the number of accidents also increased . And the search for the license also started. As he said, today the number of e-rickshaws in every city has increased uncountably. Just like in the eastern border town of Intabhatta, there are more than 150 e-rickshaws. While this city is small compared to the major cities of the country . 

There are few e-rickshaws in the city, most of them do not have a license. It has been seven years since I bought this e-rickshaw. In the beginning, it was a good income,'' he says, 'now it is not much . Save 6-700 rupees there during the day. That's why my daughter is able to teach and run the house.' Also, e-rickshaw drivers are not only unlicensed. Harak Shrestha (34), Hari Rajvanshi (56), Buddhi Kattel (50) and others who were found while traveling on the highway have produced licenses. Along with this, they are also running the house with the money earned from e-rickshaw. There is a family of three in the house of Harak Shrestha found in Ayabari. Wife stays at home . The daughter is very young . She studies in UKG . 

It has been three years since Shrestha got the license. After giving two trials, he got the license . It was difficult to drive on the highway without a license. Now, after making the license, it has become easier," he said. It took about three years for Hari Kattel, who was found in Kankarvitta, to drive an e-rickshaw. Kattel, who returned from staying in Dubai for eight years, now thought that he should do something in the country. 

was money earned abroad . He also saw good earnings in e-rickshaw. Look at everyone driving e-rickshaws. I bought it because I thought it would be a good income," he says, "In the beginning, I earned up to a thousand rupees. However, as the number of e-rickshaws increased. Earnings also decreased.' Now he earns up to 6-700 rupees a day. Which has managed to support his family of 5 (father, mother, wife, son and me) . 

Here's how e-rickshaws replaced rickshaws. In the same way, petrol-powered cars and other vehicles are also displacing e-rickshaws. However, as the number of e-rickshaws increased in the city. Accordingly, the e-rickshaw driver does not have a license. Chief of the District Traffic Police Office, Jhapa, Ganesh Paudel says that when the e-rickshaw drivers plying on the east-west highway are tested for licenses, only 60 to 70 percent get a license.