{"id":1028976,"date":"2026-08-15T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028976"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:54:42","slug":"no-advance-tip-transport-ministry-asks-ride-aggregators-to-remove-tip-prompts-from-their-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/no-advance-tip-transport-ministry-asks-ride-aggregators-to-remove-tip-prompts-from-their-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"No &#8216;Advance Tip&#8217;: Transport ministry asks ride aggregators to remove tip prompts from their apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAIPUR: In a consumer-centric move that suggests significant relief to millions of daily cab and auto commuters, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has issued strict directives to all ride-hailing aggregators to eliminate pre-ride tipping features from their applications. <\/p>\n<p>The official advisory referenced Clause 14.15 of the Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines, 2025, ordering platforms to remove manipulative prompts such as &#8220;Advance Tip,&#8221; &#8220;Choose an Add-on,&#8221; or messages claiming &#8220;A driver may be more likely to accept this trip if you add a tip.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAIPUR: In a consumer-centric move that suggests significant relief to millions of daily cab and auto commuters, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has issued strict directives to all ride-hailing aggregators to eliminate pre-ride tipping features from their applications. The official advisory referenced Clause 14.15 of the Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines, 2025, ordering platforms to remove manipulative prompts such as &#8220;Advance Tip,&#8221; &#8220;Choose an Add-on,&#8221; or messages claiming &#8220;A driver may be more likely to accept this trip if you add a tip.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028998,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028976\/revisions\/1028998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}