{"id":990273,"date":"2026-02-06T09:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990273"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:53:08","slug":"bharat-taxi-launches-today-governments-cab-app-to-offer-surge-free-rides-at-fares-up-to-30-cheaper-than-ola-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/bharat-taxi-launches-today-governments-cab-app-to-offer-surge-free-rides-at-fares-up-to-30-cheaper-than-ola-uber\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat Taxi launches today: Government\u2019s cab app to offer surge-free rides at fares up to 30% cheaper than Ola, Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Cooperation Amit Shah is set to inaugurate Bharat Taxi, the country\u2019s first cooperative-driven ride-hailing service, in New Delhi today. The launch is being seen as a major step towards reinforcing India\u2019s cooperative movement while expanding access to affordable, people-focused urban mobility. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Cooperation, the new platform is designed to put drivers \u2014 known as Sarathis \u2014 at the heart of the system, giving them control over ownership, daily operations and earnings. The model aims to move drivers away from aggregator-led structures that often limit their income and autonomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Cooperation Amit Shah is set to inaugurate Bharat Taxi, the country\u2019s first cooperative-driven ride-hailing service, in New Delhi today. The launch is being seen as a major step towards reinforcing India\u2019s cooperative movement while expanding access to affordable, people-focused urban mobility. According to the Ministry of Cooperation, the new platform is designed to put drivers \u2014 known as Sarathis \u2014 at the heart of the system, giving them control over ownership, daily operations and earnings. The model aims to move drivers away from aggregator-led structures that often limit their income and autonomy.<\/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-990273","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\/990273","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=990273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}