Delhi Government rejects Uber’s applications seeking fresh license yet again

Rahul’s experience and focus will be instrumental in scaling up this new model for Ola’s subsidiary as a win-win for all stakeholders. Split, a ride-sharing Finnish startup, is planning to make a grand entry in India and give competition to app-based cab-hailing business in the country.

Once cleared, cab services will have to register under the new policy and abide by the norms, some of which have been proposed as GPS-enabled vehicles and a panic button that passengers can use to send an SOS message to the police control room. Teemu Sihvola, head of concept development at Split, said after stabilising operations in Washington, they will eye growth markets like India.

Uber’s application seeking fresh license to run taxis in Delhi was again rejected by Delhi Government on Tuesday. The AAP government had rejected the cab service provider’s application for not filing undertakings. The company responded with a blog post about its background checks in which it said that fingerprint-based checks used by many taxi regulators can be inaccurate and return false positives for people who were arrested but not convicted.

Ola has said it clocks more than 750,000 trips a day and expects to hit 1 million, while Uber averages about 200,000 trips a day in India, according to industry sources. The government had rejected the permission to ply taxi in the national capital also in June.

While the Press Trust of India reported Uber’s rejection late on Tuesday, the company has not yet acknowledged that a decision has taken place.

In a bid to compete with other players such as Uber and Meru, Ola has announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind cab leasing programme for driver-partners under the aegis of its fully-owned subsidiary company. But the company still failed on that end. Uber will split the bill and charge separate credit cards. They launched into a publicity war, with the cab service rolling out millions of dollars in a media attack against Blasio.

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“What we needed to do was find an app that could integrate all four companies together as one dispatch”, said Bauer.

Most of those drivers signed up to drive for UberT, the company’s less-controversial service that delivers fares directly to taxi drivers’ smartphones.