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PMK person Anbumani Ramadoss connected Thursday criticised the DMK authorities for failing to fulfil its committedness to revise autorickshaw and taxi fares successful Tamil Nadu, contempt promising to bash truthful a twelvemonth agone pursuing representations from drivers’ unions.
In a statement, helium said fares for autorickshaws and taxis successful cities, including Chennai, were past revised successful August 2013, erstwhile the minimum autorickshaw fare was fixed astatine ₹25 for 1.8 km and ₹12 for each further kilometre. He said fares had remained unchanged for implicit a decade, severely affecting the livelihoods of drivers amid rising substance prices, security premiums, and conveyance attraction costs.
Dr. Anbumani said petrol and diesel prices had astir doubled since the past revision, portion spare parts, batteries, and work charges had risen 2 to threefold. He pointed retired that the Madras High Court had successful 2022 directed the authorities to signifier an adept committee to urge fare revisions, but the committee had yet to taxable its report.
Urging the State authorities to instantly revise the fares, helium added that the continued hold would further harm drivers and economically susceptible sections.
