Cars, rickshas, taxis, buses, trucks, bicycles, and people move simultaneously any which way they can. In the U.S. pedestrians almost always have the right of way. In India there are no white cane laws that I know of to protect blind people. If such laws exist, it is certain that no one adheres to them. There are no sidewalks or pedestrian crossings.
People walk on the same roads that cars drive on.
The difference is that I cross the street because I come from an environment in which people believe in blind people. In other words, what works for the blind of the U.S. and Canada should not necessarily be expected to work and might not be ideal for the blind of Burkina Fasso, Bangladesh, or Byeloruss. As you've discovered, Mariyam, the blind in many parts of the world are subject to very different conditions from those we face in North America. What Dr. Jernigan was saying is that we should not willy-nilly apply NFB philosophy in excruciating detail to other parts of the world though in broad outline it still holds. Remember we say that, given training and opportunity, the average blind person can do the average job in the average place of business as well as his or her sighted colleagues.