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Union Minister for Home Affairs and Cooperation Amit Shah volition motorboat India’s archetypal cooperative-based ride-hailing platform, Bharat Taxi, connected Thursday (February 5, 2026).
Bharat Taxi has been conceptualised arsenic a transformative inaugural successful the mobility sector, placing drivers —referred to arsenic sarathis (charioteers) — astatine the centre of ownership, operations, and worth creation, thereby freeing them from exploitative aggregator-based models, a connection by the Cooperation Ministry said.
During the programme, the apical six performing sarathis volition beryllium honoured for their outstanding contributions to the cooperative-based mobility ecosystem. Share certificates volition beryllium distributed to these sarathis, further reinforcing the halfway rule of “sarathi hullo malik” (driver is the owner).
Each honoured sarathi will beryllium provided with a idiosyncratic mishap security screen of ₹5 lakh and household wellness security screen of ₹5 lakh, reflecting Bharat Taxi’s committedness to operator payment and semipermanent societal security, the Ministry said.
On the occasion, 9 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) volition beryllium exchanged with cardinal nationalist and backstage stakeholders to fortify operational integration, integer empowerment, safety, and work delivery, the connection said.
Bharat Taxi is India’s archetypal cooperative-led ride-hailing level registered nether the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 2002, and was established connected June 6, 2025. The level operates connected a “zero commission” and “surge-free pricing” model, with nonstop organisation of profits to drivers, presenting an indigenous alternate to overseas investment-based aggregator platforms.
The level prioritises societal information for the sarathis through wellness insurance, mishap insurance, status savings, and a dedicated operator enactment system. Support centres are being operated astatine 7 cardinal locations successful Delhi. The level provides accelerated exigency assistance, verified thrust data, and allows drivers the state to enactment connected different platforms without immoderate exclusivity clauses. To beforehand women’s empowerment, initiatives specified arsenic ‘Bike Didi’ (elder sister) are being implemented, nether which much than 150 women drivers person joined Bharat Taxi truthful far.
More than 3 lakh drivers person joined the platform, implicit 1 lakh users are registered, and much than 10,000 rides are being completed regular successful Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) and Gujarat. Approximately ₹10 crore has been distributed straight to drivers truthful far, the Ministry said.
Bharat Taxi aims to grow to each States and cities crossed the state successful the adjacent 2 years.
