Inhuman life of private transport employees.

I shall try  my best to  present the  life  style of our  countless private transport employees. I don't know the exact number of such employees in Bengal, mainly I have considered the Drivers , Conductors and helpers of private and minibuses.The number of such employees approximately will exceed one lakh. One thing I should categorically mention that I have not seen the day to day life of such huge number of people from close contact ,I have seen from distance and have been writing mainly on imagination.

Their days start  at about three while we are under sound sleep .They are to report for duty by four since the first   trip starts At about five and the last trip ends at about  ten . After that cash has to be deposited to the owner of the buses with the accounts and they also would take their remuneration .

The workers are to discharge duties about seventeen hours at a stretch from morning five to night ten. The nature of duty involved is extremely   hard and extreme pressure falls on throat. The Conductors and the helpers are to shout whole day. The most surprising and unbelievable thing is that despite long seventeen hours duty they don't get possibly any lunch break. How do they take their lanch? While  waiting at terminus they take their lanch at the minimum time. They have no scope of taking bath . It can be appreciated from this the extent of inhuman life they are to pass   . Considering such hard duties in most cases they can not discharge duties more than three days in a week .

As regards financial aspects too the Conductors don't get any salary instead they get commission on sales only.

  It has been noticed in most of the cases that they are attacked with major diseases following excessive    torturer on health and they can't go for medical treatment and they are the victims of short life.

In working place they have no security ,  they have no provident fund facilities.It is unimaginable that they don't get a single  paise from their employers in case of serious illness, termination of service or leaving service or death.

It is unbelievable that even after the expiry of long seven decades the condition of huge section of workers are beyond imagination and the same are against humanity, civilisation and the same may be termed as barbaric. The same does not show any indication of slightest improvement.