{"id":990294,"date":"2026-02-06T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990294"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:53:43","slug":"bharat-taxi-app-explained-all-about-the-govt-backed-alternative-to-ola-uber-and-rapido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/bharat-taxi-app-explained-all-about-the-govt-backed-alternative-to-ola-uber-and-rapido\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat Taxi app explained: All about the govt-backed alternative to Ola, Uber and Rapido"},"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 known as Sarathi\u2019s 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 known as Sarathi\u2019s 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-990294","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\/990294","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=990294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}