App-based gig workers, including auto drivers to go off roads on February 7

A clutch of gig workers unions covering those associated with thrust hailing aggregators, including autorickshaws, connected Tuesday announced an ‘All India Breakdown’ connected Saturday (February 7, 2026) which volition entail workers going disconnected the roads for astatine slightest six hours. 

The move, jointly organised by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union, Indian Labour Welfare Federation, All India Transport Union Congress, among others, aims to gully attraction to what they alleged was the government’s inaction to code fare exploitation by app-based aggregator platforms.

The unions claimed that aggregators fixed fares arbitrarily, which has led to workers facing hardships and unsustainable moving conditions. They said that this was against the tone of the Motor Vehicle Aggregator Guidelines

The unions demanded that minimum basal fares crossed app-based transport services beryllium notified some astatine the Union and and State Government level. They reiterated a long-standing request of amended enforcing the existing argumentation connected prohibition of non-commercial vehicles for commercialized activity, including taxis.