The middleman culture is spreading fast in metropolitan cities, including Chandigarh, It has a big potential as a profession and presently it is digging deep its roots. Whether it is employment abroad or getting the passport, one can jeave the task in the hands of trusted middlemen and relax, your strenuous personal efforts extending over months may remain fruit Jess and cause you disappointment. But the middleman can work marvels for you for a fee.
A human being has a fertile mind and a creative brain. With changes in life styles now taking place the profession of a middleman has become viable and struck its roots. It is likely to spread like a grapevine.
Chandigarh is a city of destinies where one gets ample opportunity to show skill and tact. Out of its floating population running into lakhs, quite a chunk is rickshaw pullers by profession. But all of them are not the usual run of the wheel. Some of them are master connoisseurs and that quality has enabled them to stand out among vast stretches of their colleagues, they act as middlemen between guest houses and visitors who travel long distances to either enjoy sightseeing here or sodium. En route to hill stations after a fatiguing journey.
There are scores of private guest houses in city and Sector 21A alone has about a dozen of them. This rickshaw pullers nave a rapport with their owners and every one of them has a priority list. He has the instinct to spot out and pick up visitors coming by night service or early in the morning. From the bus stand he follows the circuitous route and takes the passenger load to the first guest house on his priority list. In the Event of the no availability of accommodation he would move to the next in order until the visitors are comfortably lodged. For this rapport he is paid by the guest house $0 per cent of a day’s charges collected from visitor. Being close to these guest houses in the vicinity, I see the same rickshaw pullers arriving with passenger loads. One such rickshaw puller who switched over from a construction project made Rs 4000 extra within 2 months. But it needs adeptness.
Middleman service has grown into a regular profession. If you are a newcomer to the city and need accommodation, you shall not have any difficulty if you know the area of your choice. Then you have to simply approach the property dealer in the locality who will solve your problem, His charges: Just half month’s rent from the landlord and the tenant, In case you want to shift your residence from one locality to another on account of your inconvenience, the Sunday Tribune shall help you.
Before partition recruitment to “other ranks” in the Army was made at scheduled centers through middlemen who would be notified the time and date of the arrival of the recruiting authority. The middleman got his remuneration and also appreciation.
If you are bachelor or a widower or a divorcee and need a partner life, please have no worry. The assistance of the middleman, the marriage bureau. Fora fee they, will arrange meeting with suitable: parties until the affair is settled, similarly for payment of yourselves electricity bill, water bill, or collecting: your bills from your bankers or the railway station, you can entrust the service to the middleman i your sector and he will do the job for you against a small charge. ‘*
If you want to book your air ticket, or reserve your railway seat you can entrust this service to the middleman who will, subject to a charge, deliver the tickets at your residence well in time and save you all the worry. Your persona effort direct with the booking office may be peeving and futile; the middleman can save you from all the ordeal and disappointment.
The middleman service has a vast scope; there are still larger areas to which this service can be ex tended.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 16, 1994
