Taxi driver associations maintain protest in Delhi in opposition to rising gasoline costs

Image Source : PTI Taxi driver associations maintain protest in Delhi in opposition to rising gasoline costs
 Taxi driver associations held a protest in opposition to hovering gasoline costs on the Barakhamba Road space of the nationwide capital on Friday. Kamaljit Gill, Sarvodaya Drivers Association president, stated taxi drivers tied black ribbons on their faces and held a peaceable protest from 10 am to 11 am.

“The permission was for 80 people. However, around 200 reached Barakhamba Road, parked their vehicles and joined the protest peacefully without saying anything. We will hold another protest across the nation on March 22 and 23,” he stated.

Other than Sarvodaya Drivers Association, Expert Driver Solution, Rajdhani Parivahan and different related outfits participated within the protest, Gill stated.

Carrying placards, the protesters demanded that app-based taxis must be introduced beneath metropolis taxi allow as per a 2017 order of the Supreme Court.

“App-based taxi drivers charge Rs 6 per kilometre. They give 25 per cent to the company as commission, and as the prices of petrol are increasing day by day, it is becoming difficult for them,” Gill stated.

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