new delhi i dont think i will even recover the fuel cost of the ride from home to here it is better to sit at home than work like this said autorickshaw driver ravi kumar near new delhi railway station on tuesday morning delhi has allowed paratransit vehicles like autorickshaws cabs erickshaws and grameen sewa to resume plying but restricted the number of people they can carry while cabs are allowed two passengers autos and erickshaws are permitted just the oneit is difficult to find a solo passenger continued kumar from my kalyanpuri home till the railway station i didnt get any passengers and here too i havent managed a single journey if a family is travelling how will they hire separate autossantosh pal agreed that it would be difficult to earn with such a rule i dont own the auto i pay rs 300 rent for an eighthour shift plus of course the fuel cost he reckoned unless i earn rs 8001000 a day it makes no sense yes i did receive rs 5000 and rations from delhi government but you need more to sustain a family of foursome auto drivers werent as lawabiding and ferried up to three passengers at a time many others charged abnormally high fares even for short distancesbittu bhatia drove his auto from his home in northeast delhis dilshad colony to alims in south delhi but failed to pick up any passenger apart from our regular costs we now have the added expense of sanitisers and disinfectants besides having to put up a plastic sheet to separate the passenger seat from mine he said delhi government should allow two passengers else they will all travel by taxisother paratransit vehicles like grameen sewa and ecofriendly sewa were conspicuous by their absence on tuesday the road next to the nehru enclave metro station going to kalkaji is normally choked by grameen sewa units but was deserted on tuesday morning at the other grameen sewa hub in seemapuri almost a hundred of these vehicles stood unused near the bus depotwhether it is grameen sewa phatphat sewa or ecofriendly sewa we decided not to ply our vehicles because the conditions imposed are not fair said shyam lal gola general secretary sta operators ekta manch two passengers will pay rs 5 each how will we pay for fuel maintenance drivers plus disinfection with rs 10 the government should pay us a fixed amount per kilometre to carry peopleerickshaws too werent out in their usual annoying numbers we have largely fixed routes from delhi metro stations to residential colonies but with the train services closed we dont get passengers reasoned mohammed aslam at the dilshad garden metro station