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The Maharashtra authorities connected Friday (October 10, 2025) announced draught rules of “Motor Vehicle Aggregator Rules, 2025” for app-based aggregators of nationalist transport vehicles and invited objections and suggestions from stakeholders by October 17.
The argumentation includes fare rules nether which the institution cannot complaint much than 1.5 times the archetypal fare. “The institution has to supply flexibility to drivers to usage the app for a maximum of 12 hours per day, with a remainder clip of astatine slightest 10 hours. Due to this, on with the passengers, the drivers volition besides get relief,” arsenic per the connection of the State Transport Department.
“With caller rules successful place, the information and work prime are expected to improve. The drivers volition besides beryllium protected from exploitation arsenic payment provisions volition beryllium implemented for their work,” said Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik.
The rules are applicable to the app-based nationalist transport services, including e-rickshaws, Ola, Uber, Rapido, and others, aiming for discipline, transparency and rider information successful services.
According to the Transport Department, these caller rules volition marque the narration betwixt aggregator companies, drivers, and passengers much transparent, bringing important changes successful presumption of fares, work quality, operator rights, and rider safety.
The “Maharashtra Bike-Taxi Rules, 2025” volition stay applicable for bike-taxi services, and a abstracted licence volition person to beryllium obtained for the same.
The different presumption see utilizing 3 languages- Marathi, Hindi and English- successful the app, designing the app successful a mode that the destination is not disposable to the operator until the thrust is accepted, and mandatory peculiar facilities for disabled passengers.
