CV DRIVERS: FRONTLINE WARRIORS?
Commercial Vehicle|August 2020
The demand for CV drivers to be given the status of frontline warriors should be scrutinised and acted upon.
Bhushan Mhapralkar
CV DRIVERS: FRONTLINE WARRIORS?

Rajesh Shelke (name changed on request) spoke in a worried tone about contracting the Covid-19 virus as he waited for his truck to loaded at a warehouse at Bhandup, an industrial suburb of Mumbai. He said that he is worried because he has seen seen two fellow owner-operators go down with the virus. Not only them, but an autorickshaw driver in the area where he stays at Ghatkopar also went down with the virus. The number of CV drivers affected with Covid-19 would have added to the statistics as the virus causes much pain to all those who come its paths. What is perhaps the most painful is the financial and emotional burden it unleashes, ravaging families and robbing them of a bright future. Stating that the virus has literally brought driver families on the brink of collapse with the loss of their only earning member as well as the money lost in ensuring medical aid, Shelke averred that it is high time the government provides CV drivers appropriate protection.

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