{"id":862292,"date":"2024-10-03T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=862292"},"modified":"2024-10-03T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:24:08","slug":"centre-proposes-legal-framework-to-enable-running-of-bike-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/03\/centre-proposes-legal-framework-to-enable-running-of-bike-taxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre proposes legal framework to enable running of \u201cbike taxis\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government has proposed amendments in the Motor Vehicles Act, to allow use of motorcycles as \u201ccontract carriers,\u201d which, if approved, will create a legal framework for bike taxis to operate in India. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, bike taxis are operating through aggregators like Rapido, Ola and Uber, but because the Act does not include \u2018motorcycle\u2019 in the list of eligible vehicles to act as contract carriage, many states have banned them. Opposition to the bike taxis has come from three-wheelers and taxi unions as it puts them at a disadvantage due to the former\u2019s lower costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government has proposed amendments in the Motor Vehicles Act, to allow use of motorcycles as \u201ccontract carriers,\u201d which, if approved, will create a legal framework for bike taxis to operate in India. Currently, bike taxis are operating through aggregators like Rapido, Ola and Uber, but because the Act does not include \u2018motorcycle\u2019 in the list of eligible vehicles to act as contract carriage, many states have banned them. Opposition to the bike taxis has come from three-wheelers and taxi unions as it puts them at a disadvantage due to the former\u2019s lower costs.<\/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-862292","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\/862292","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=862292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}