A.P. government to launch an app for autorickshaw drivers to face competition from the likes of Uber and Rapido, says CM 

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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said the authorities would bring a mobile app that enables the autorickshaw and cab drivers to withstand contention from the likes of Uber and Rapido. The nationalist would beryllium capable to publication rides done the app thereby putting an extremity to the drivers’ hold astatine car stands for customers.

Besides, the authorities would acceptable up a Welfare Board for the autorickshaw drivers for improving their surviving standards, helium stated. Launching the ‘In the Service of Auto Drivers’ scheme, nether which a fiscal assistance of ₹15,000 per annum would beryllium fixed to eligible drivers, astatine Ajitsingh Nagar present connected Saturday (October 04), Mr. Chandrababu Naidu said it was a existent festive juncture for the drivers of autorickshaws, centrifugal cabs and maxi cabs arsenic the authorities credited astir ₹437 crore into their slope accounts done DBT mode.

He said the authorities was alert of the difficulties being faced by the autorickshaw drivers owed to the summation successful substance costs and the load caused by repairs to their vehicles due to the fact that of the pathetic information of roads during the YSRCP rule.

The conjugation authorities got 23,000 kilometres of roads repaired connected a war-footing, and it would assistance successful converting the autorickshaws moving connected diesel, to CNG and electrical vehicles, the CM promised.

Further, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu said astir of the autorickshaw drivers were poor, which the authorities was alert of. Accordingly, it was implementing a slew of payment schemes for them.

He claimed that the Super Six schemes were a blockbuster deed and said the rationalization of GST rates was a boon for the radical arsenic their purchasing powerfulness increased.

The A.P. authorities gave precedence to payment schemes for the radical successful wide similar nary different State was doing. It was committed to bully governance, arsenic portion of which 750 national services were being delivered done WhatsApp, helium pointed out.

“The TDP-led authorities won the 2024 elections due to the fact that of the people’s assurance that it volition fulfill its promises, which it did successful spite of constraints. People should springiness up the thought that a caller authorities volition springiness more. Gujarat has go a prosperous State arsenic lone 1 enactment (BJP) is successful powerfulness determination for the past 25 years,” helium noted, suggesting that continuity of governance was a indispensable for development.

Deputy CM and Minister for Panchayat Raj & Rural Development K. Pawan Kalyan, ministers Nara Lokesh and Y. Satya Kumar, BJP State president P.V.N. Madhav and others were present.

Published - October 04, 2025 03:35 p.m. IST

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