{"id":1036174,"date":"2026-09-17T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036174"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:23:54","slug":"govt-tells-cab-aggregators-to-stop-advance-tipping-before-rides-calls-practice-misleading-and-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/govt-tells-cab-aggregators-to-stop-advance-tipping-before-rides-calls-practice-misleading-and-unfair\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt tells cab aggregators to stop advance tipping before rides, calls practice misleading and unfair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has directed cab aggregators to discontinue advance tipping options that prompt passengers to pay drivers extra even before a ride is confirmed, calling the practice misleading and an unfair trade practice, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The directive comes a day after the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) imposed a Rs 10 lakh penalty on ride-hailing platform Rapido over a range of practices, including prompts asking passengers to increase the amount they were willing to pay while waiting for a driver to accept their booking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has directed cab aggregators to discontinue advance tipping options that prompt passengers to pay drivers extra even before a ride is confirmed, calling the practice misleading and an unfair trade practice, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said on Wednesday. The directive comes a day after the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) imposed a Rs 10 lakh penalty on ride-hailing platform Rapido over a range of practices, including prompts asking passengers to increase the amount they were willing to pay while waiting for a driver to accept their booking.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036174","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=1036174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036194,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036174\/revisions\/1036194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}