Protesting increasing commission in Ola Uber and non-installation of panic buttons hundreds of taxi drivers of the city demonstrated outside the Regional Transport Office (RTO) Bhopal on Monday afternoon, the protesters demonstrated demanding for over three hours.
During protest hundreds of taxi drivers will reach the RTO. Due to this, people in many areas of the city were not able to avail taxi services. These taxi drivers continued to protest against the increasing commission in Ola Uber and non-installation of panic buttons. Later, these drivers also submitted a memorandum to Road Transport Inspector Bharti Verma.
District President of Taxi Union Welfare Committee, Nafees Uddin said that in the presence of National President Sushil Singh Chauhan, we put our demands to the Transport Department. In this, especially expensive panic buttons, continuously increasing prices of petrol and diesel and continuously increasing commission by the company will be opposed.
Nafees Uddin said that taxi drivers have been facing problems for a long time.
At present, it is mandatory to install panic buttons in vehicles. Its cost is about Rs 14000 being taken by the agent, while the cost of the panic button is only Rs 5000. This requirement should be made compulsory.
The Ola-Uber takes 28-30 percent commission due to this, there is a burden of Rs 12-15 per kilometer. According to the government rate, the cab driver should get Rs 20 per kilometer from these companies.
The driver of the company which is running without license should be banned.
Private bike taxis, Job Rapido and Ola are running, they should be banned, because they do not have taxi permit, no fitness and license.
If there is a government taxi app, in which 10 percent commission is taken, then we will be able to leave the slavery of private companies and do our own work.
Some customers misbehave with the driver. The company does not endorse anything in that. For this, the company should make a guideline.
Many vehicles are being used as private taxis in Bhopal. Action should be taken on them. Private vehicles have also been installed in some government offices. Vehicles are also running in Ola and Uber through Travel operators, these should be banned.