more-inThey may be easier on the average commuter’s pocket, the environment and the Capital's congested streets, but shared rides aboard cabs are on the verge of being outlawed in Delhi, sources claim. A contract carriage permit allows for ferrying a passenger or passengers for hire from one point to another without stopping to pick up, or set down, more passengers. A stage carriage permit allows the ferrying of passengers picked up, and set down, in stages at separate fares. Cabs are operated as per the provisions of contract carriage permits unlike, say, buses which pick up and drop passengers along permitted routes as per stage carriage permit rules. A source claimed the City Taxi Scheme 2017 was in the process of being reviewed at the higher levels of the city’s administrative circles and expected to be notified soon.

Source: The Hindu July 09, 2017 01:41 UTC