Chandigarh, Aug 23 - After the pink auto rickshaws called 'Tuk-Tuk', the city administration is now looking for a new avatar of cycle rickshaws. It has asked a university here to modernise the good old pollution-free vehicle and present it as an attractive option for tourists in the coming months.

'Chandigarh administration has assigned a small-scale project to the Punjab Engineering College (PEC), a deemed university here, for modernising cycle-rickshaws with a structural design that will meet present requirements of commuters,' said a spokesperson of the administration here Sunday.

'The proposed design of cycle-rickshaws will also reduce the human toil of rickshaw pullers. They will be made more comfortable and provide quality service to the city residents and to tourists coming here,' he added.

Union territory administrator S.F. Rodrigues held a meeting with the senior officials of PEC to decide the modalities of this project.