{"id":1036729,"date":"2026-09-18T10:08:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036729"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:53:57","slug":"govt-seeks-to-end-advance-tipping-on-cabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/govt-seeks-to-end-advance-tipping-on-cabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt seeks to end advance tipping on cabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has ordered cab aggregators to stop providing advance tipping options even before booking a ride, as the practice is misleading and unfair, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said on Wednesday.  The secretary\u2019s comment comes a day after the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) slapped a Rs 10 lakh penalty on ride-hailing platform Rapido for various unfair business practices, including advance tipping for drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has ordered cab aggregators to stop providing advance tipping options even before booking a ride, as the practice is misleading and unfair, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said on Wednesday. The secretary\u2019s comment comes a day after the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) slapped a Rs 10 lakh penalty on ride-hailing platform Rapido for various unfair business practices, including advance tipping for drivers.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036729","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=1036729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036730,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036729\/revisions\/1036730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}