{"id":982103,"date":"2025-12-26T09:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982103"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:38:21","slug":"govt-bans-advance-tipping-on-ride-hailing-apps-mandates-female-driver-option-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/26\/govt-bans-advance-tipping-on-ride-hailing-apps-mandates-female-driver-option-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt bans \u2018advance tipping\u2019 on ride-hailing apps, mandates \u2018female driver\u2019 option for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government has cracked down on the advance tipping feature in the ride-hailing sector, effectively banning platforms like Uber, Ola, and Rapido from soliciting tips from passengers before a ride begins. <\/p>\n<p>An amendment to the Motor Vehicles Aggregators Guidelines, 2025, issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), through a circular dated December 15, which was reviewed by FE, has mandated that any voluntary tipping feature must only be visible to the passenger \u201cafter the completion of the journey.\u201d The new rules also introduce a mandatory safety feature allowing female passengers to specifically choose female drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government has cracked down on the advance tipping feature in the ride-hailing sector, effectively banning platforms like Uber, Ola, and Rapido from soliciting tips from passengers before a ride begins. An amendment to the Motor Vehicles Aggregators Guidelines, 2025, issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), through a circular dated December 15, which was reviewed by FE, has mandated that any voluntary tipping feature must only be visible to the passenger \u201cafter the completion of the journey.\u201d The new rules also introduce a mandatory safety feature allowing female passengers to specifically choose female 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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982103","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\/982103","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=982103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}