To mark Valentine's Day 42 students of various colleges of the city pulled rickshaws on its throughfares with those who ply them as passengers.
Some of the students who took part in this programme were girls.
The students pulled the hand pulled rickshaws along a three km busy stretch between Bank of India Crossing on Amherst Street to M G Road via B B Ganguly Street and College Street in central Kolkata, one of the organisers Saptak Biswas, himself a journalism student, said.
Cycle rickshwas are not allowed to ply on the main streets of the city proper.
While 42 students pulled as many rickshaws, around 65 others from over 20 colleges in the city walked with them along the route.
"We took it as our turn to show our love and appreciation to those who work tirelessly 365 days but seldom get any recognition," a girl student Puja Gupta, who pulled a rickshaw said.
"My hands were aching. I realised the pain, stress and hardship the rikshawpullers experience daily for a few ..
