{"id":943208,"date":"2025-07-03T07:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943208"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T01:56:35","slug":"maharashtra-transport-minister-exposes-illegal-plying-of-bike-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/03\/maharashtra-transport-minister-exposes-illegal-plying-of-bike-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra transport minister exposes illegal plying of bike taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik on Wednesday exposed the illegal plying of bike taxis by booking a ride in Mumbai using a different name, an investigation that laid bare the department&#8217;s official version of strict compliance. <\/p>\n<p>The minister booked a ride using Rapido app to verify a senior official&#8217;s claim that the app and illegal bike taxi service were not functional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik on Wednesday exposed the illegal plying of bike taxis by booking a ride in Mumbai using a different name, an investigation that laid bare the department&#8217;s official version of strict compliance. The minister booked a ride using Rapido app to verify a senior official&#8217;s claim that the app and illegal bike taxi service were not functional.<\/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-943208","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\/943208","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=943208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}