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A taxi service cooperative akin to private taxi aggregators will be soon launched, the Ministry of Cooperation said in a statement Friday.
The cooperative will be formed by willing taxi drivers and the management will rest with the members of such society, the statement said.
On Wednesday, Union Minister for Cooperation Amit Shah had told Lok Sabha that a ‘Sahkar Taxi’ on the lines of Ola and Uber will be rolled out in the near future. Two-wheelers, taxis, rickshaws and four-wheelers can register and the profit will go directly to the driver, Shah had said.
“The objective of this initiative is to ensure democratic management by active participation of all members and to ensure that maximum profit earned by such cooperative taxi society is distributed equitably among the taxi drivers who will be members of that society,” the cooperative ministry’s note stated.
Such an initiative, the ministry said, will improve the income and working conditions for such taxi drivers and members of the cooperative society while providing better services to consumers.
The ministry said that the government has promoted and assisted startups and other enterprises in the past for equitable & inclusive growth of the nation. “India is home to over 8 lakh cooperative societies, serving nearly 30 crore members across 30 different sectors,” it said.
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