{"id":1030049,"date":"2026-08-20T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030049"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:46:35","slug":"uber-ola-rapido-bypass-govt-call-to-cancel-pre-ride-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/uber-ola-rapido-bypass-govt-call-to-cancel-pre-ride-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber, Ola, Rapido bypass govt call to cancel pre-ride tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-hailing apps Uber, Rapido, Ola and Namma Yatri continue to prompt users to pay a tip before a ride is confirmed, more than a week after the government asked them not to display such additional payment features until a journey is completed, an FE review of the apps in Bengaluru and Mumbai on Wednesday showed. <\/p>\n<p>In an advisory dated August 11, the ministry of road transport and highways drew the attention of aggregators to Clause 14.15 of the Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines, 2025, under which tipping must be entirely voluntary and can be offered only after a journey is completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-hailing apps Uber, Rapido, Ola and Namma Yatri continue to prompt users to pay a tip before a ride is confirmed, more than a week after the government asked them not to display such additional payment features until a journey is completed, an FE review of the apps in Bengaluru and Mumbai on Wednesday showed. In an advisory dated August 11, the ministry of road transport and highways drew the attention of aggregators to Clause 14.15 of the Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines, 2025, under which tipping must be entirely voluntary and can be offered only after a journey is completed.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030049","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=1030049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030074,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030049\/revisions\/1030074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}