{"id":990675,"date":"2026-02-09T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990675"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:16:49","slug":"ride-hailing-app-services-partially-impacted-as-drivers-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/ride-hailing-app-services-partially-impacted-as-drivers-go-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride hailing app services partially impacted as drivers go on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-hailing apps such as Ola, Uber and Rapido were sporadically impacted on Saturday as drivers went on a partial strike across several cities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union (TGPWU) had called for a &#8220;breakdown&#8221; on February 7 to protest against existing rules and practices of app-based transportation platforms.<\/p>\n<p>It has demanded that the Centre and state governments should notify minimum base fare app-based transport services and bar the use of non-commercial vehicles for commercial passenger and goods transport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-hailing apps such as Ola, Uber and Rapido were sporadically impacted on Saturday as drivers went on a partial strike across several cities in the country. Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union (TGPWU) had called for a &#8220;breakdown&#8221; on February 7 to protest against existing rules and practices of app-based transportation platforms. It has demanded that the Centre and state governments should notify minimum base fare app-based transport services and bar the use of non-commercial vehicles for commercial passenger and goods transport.<\/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-990675","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\/990675","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=990675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}