Bring a bicycle under the Commercial-Vehicle category: Rapido-based bicycle-taxi aggregator has made headlines for the wrong reasons for several years.
Pavan Guntupalli, Co-founder, talking to TOI on transportation departing menskrackdown on their bikes.
Quotes: How many Captain Bicycles (Drivers) and Daily Users of Bengaluru Has? There are more than 3 Lakh captains and more than 4 million customers in Bengaluru.
About 1 lakh people use our bikes every day for the last mile connectivity we aim to create 10 million jobs for the next two years throughout the country.
Karnataka launched a policy for electric bicycle taxis.
Why does Rapido not submit permission? Bicycle taxis have been imagined to reduce private vehicles to combat the challenge of increasing carbon footprint.
We have explored EVS ideas.
We aim to utilize existing infrastructure without increasing fleet.
The transportation department said it did not take action against the company because of the pill but the captain’s vehicle was confiscated.
We have submitted a written petition on the coercive method that is used to stop our captain from carrying out his duties.
Take action against them the same as taking action against the company.
But run the white board vehicle because of illegal taxis.
Automatic drivers pay more MV tax.
Rapido is an application-based business where each order is recorded.
We have submitted a request to the government to include bicycles as commercial vehicles, in an effort to allow the field of playing levels for all vehicles under the MV Act.
This department demanded ₹ 10,000 ₹ 15,000 from the captain.
We provide assistance to the captain and have returned a fine paid by them on behalf of Rapido, if any.
Rapido condemned Il-legal and coercive actions taken by certifa in an entity.
What is your future action? We want to work together with government authorities in the future too.
Illegal actions taken by certain parties force us to pursue insult to avoid such disorders, and we sincerely hope the problem will be resolved soon.
The whiteboard vehicle cannot be rotated as a taxi: The Auto Unionutorickshaw driver has opposed and tried to get a bicycle taxi confiscated throughout the city.
TOI spoke with g narayanaswamy, president, Karnataka Chalakara Okkuta, which is the end of the drive against a bicycle taxi in the city.
Quote: Why did you oppose a bicycle taxi? It is illegal to run a white board as a bicycle taxi.
Automatic drivers pay commercial motor vehicle tax, allegations of annual fitness certificates, insurance etc.
We were allowed to run auto only to accept yellow badges.
But bicycle taxis did not follow this rule.
We opposed them because the white bicycle board was used as a taxi.
Riders using a taxi bike will not get insurance if there is acceptable NT because it is illegal.
Rapido has run a bicycle taxi since 2015-2016.
Why did you oppose it now? Our income has drastically dipped after Covid.
Bicycle taxi riders make Rs 2,000-rs 3,000 every day but automatic drivers don’t even get Rs 500.
The government has not allowed ARD White-Bo vehicles to ply as a taxi.
If they allow a whiteboard bicycle taxi, they have to let us with a blackboard.
Many bicycle taxi captains come from poor families.
Most automatic drivers are also from poor families.
For captain, this is a part-time job, but this is the only source of our income.
All our household expenses, Auto LPG, vehicle maintenance, RANce Law costs etc.
From automatic income.
But you don’t have the right to grab a bicycle taxi or harass the captain.
We have submitted several complaints before the transportation department and traffic police.
We protested bicycle taxis in places like Shantinagar, HSR layout and Yeshwantpur.
We never caught a bicycle taxi, but facilitated the department to take action.
Will you oppose an electric bicycle taxi? We will oppose all bicycle taxis, including those who are electricity, because they will also affect automatic drivers.
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