New Delhi sources have reported that sharing a ride with strangers in an air-conditioned cab at a discounted price may soon be disallowed in the city. Under the Delhi government's City Taxi Scheme, 2017, cab aggregates will be barred from offering shared rides to their customers as "as it is not compatible with the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988”.
A source in the AAP government stated that the scheme, which is aimed at regulating app-based taxi aggregates such as Ola and Uber, is being analyzed and is said to be in the final stages before it was implemented.
According to a source, the scheme, which is a
regulatory framework for cab services in the city, will ban shared cab rides
and moreover the cab aggregates operate with contract carriage permits that
allow point to point transportation with no stopovers between the origin and
final destination of a ride. In contrast to this, the stage carriage permit,
given for public service buses, allows picking up and dropping passengers at
different stops on a given route.
