Now autorickshaws go off roads in Mumbai against pvt cab operators

June 17, 2015 09:39

More than a million people in Mumbai's suburbs, Thane and Navi Mumbai will be inconvenienced today as autorickshaws won't ply.

The strike will especially affect feeder and share routes near railway stations. It will affect officegoers and long-distance passengers arriving at LTT, Bandra Terminus and Borivli stations.

To mitigate its effects, the government has allowed private cabs to operate as public transport vehicles. Also, 100 additional State Transport buses will be deployed in Mumbai.

The strike, which follows Nitesh Rane's taxi strike on Monday, has been called by the Mumbai Autorickshawmen's Union, which is led by Shashank Rao, to press demands for a ban on aggregator cab services like Ola and Uber within Mumbai and for the Hakim committee fare hike formula to be continued.

The strike has been opposed by rival unions like those of Thampy Kurien and the Shiv Sena, who have asked affiliated drivers to ply. Also, as an anti-strike measure, Uber will disable its dynamic pricing and implement a flat rate for today, which it said could increase demand and affect the availability of cabs.

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