Chhotelal Jaiswal, 70, has been sitting idle for the past two days. He has been a tanker driver for nearly 40 years. He has left his family back home at the village and has been with the tanker industry for more than half his life. “My daily earnings are my bread and butter, and we cannot survive if we sit idle like this. It has been two days now, and I have been surviving because of the community, but if it stretches too long, there will be problems.”

Driver Chhotelal Jaiswal, with his water tanker, parked outside the water filling station in Prabhadevi