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　　The goal with the new rickshaw is to increase the number of trips per day that the pullers can make. There is also space for advertising, a way for them to earn additional money.

　　The designers suggest that rickshaw pullers could repay a loan to buy a Soleckshaw within about two or three years. They could borrow the money from the Rickshaw Bank.

　　India's seven to eight million pullers usually pay one-third of their earnings to the owner of a rickshaw to use it by the day. But in two thousand four the Center for Rural Development had the idea for a bank to help self-employed workers buy their own rickshaws.

　　There are plans for improved versions of the Soleckshaw, and to use them when New Delhi hosts the Commonwealth Games next year.

　　Vandana Prakash writes about environmental policy. She wrote at ecowordly.com that Soleckshaws are a great step forward. But she says several important issues and questions are getting lost in all the excitement.

　　She suggests that pullers might not be able to earn enough to pay back a loan for the current high cost of a Soleckshaw. The price is four hundred forty dollars compared to one hundred seventy, or less, for a traditional cycle rickshaw.

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