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TRUCKER DANGEROUS JOB * India: "... It is a dangerous place to work; it is a den of criminals and prostitutes ..."
* Delhi - Perils of life in Asia's largest truck pit: It's home to thousands of drivers, transporters, sex workers, gamblers, mechanics and truck artists
-- For about 2,500 transporters in the Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar, arguably Asia’s biggest transport hub in outer Delhi, Gunjeet Singh Sangha’s name has been nothing short of an insurance. He says his name ‘Sangha’--- it is painted in white bold letters on about 10,000 trucks--- ensures no problems with the traffic police or the transport department. He gets hundreds of calls for help from other transporters and drivers and the requests are always granted... “It is not an easy task. This place is an area of darkness,” says Singh... It takes a trucker’s resolve to survive in this transport hub. It is home to thousands of truck drivers, sex workers, gamblers, workshops and truck artists. The roads here are nothing but crater- ridden dust tracks; the gutters overflow and mounds of garbage can be spotted at every street corner... Most walls are painted with slogans promoting the use of condoms. In fact, about 10,000 condoms are picked out daily from boxes that have been put up at several shops...
(Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo - About 10, 000 condoms are sold every day at Transport Nagar)
... The threat of sexually transmitted disease (STD) is still alarming. Several NGOs work in Transport Nagar with drivers and sex workers... “The community (truckers) continues to be at a high risk of HIV infection. They stay away from home for months. There is still a high prevalence of unsafe sex and drug addiction among them,” says Amit Ranjan Chaudhary, who heads a programme ‘Targeted Intervention’ launched by CSR wing of Apollo Tyres in Transport Nagar... The Apollo health care centre ---- its entrance has a plastic box fitted on the wall which has condoms for free distribution—is visited by 30 people every day. The clinic has distributed small white boxes with messages on safe sex printed on them to various roadside dhabas, paan shops, etc to keep condoms for sale. Chaudhary says about 10, 000 condoms are sold every day here...
New Delhi, India - The Hindustan Times, by Manoj Sharma - Apr 24, 2015
Labels: dangerous job, dangerous proffesion, trucker stories
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