Passengers must pay ₹10.27 per km for the service
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The State Transport Authority (STA) in Maharashtra has granted approval for provisional licences to the mum or dad corporations of app-based taxi aggregators Ola, Uber, and Rapido for bike taxi providers within the Mumbai Metropolitan Area and stuck a minimal fare of Rs 15 for 1.5 kms, officers have stated.
As per the minutes of an STA assembly, the approval has been granted on the situation that these firms apply for everlasting licences inside a month, fulfilling all phrases and situations prescribed within the Maharashtra Bike Taxi Guidelines 2025.
ANI Applied sciences Personal Restricted, Uber India Methods Personal Restricted, and Roppen Transportation Providers Personal Restricted, the mum or dad firms of Ola, Uber, and Rapido, respectively, have been given approval.
Within the final two months, the transport division obtained 4 purposes to launch bike taxi providers within the Mumbai Metropolitan Area (MMR). But it surely accredited provisional licences for under three firms.
The STA rejected Sensible-Trip’s utility for failing to fulfill the required phrases and situations for working a motorcycle taxi service.
The state authorities carried out the brand new Maharashtra Bike Taxi Guidelines 2025 by way of a authorities decision (GR).
The STA has additionally accredited a minimal fare for bike taxis at Rs 15 for 1.5 kms, officers stated on Monday.
Passengers must pay ₹10.27 per km for the service, they stated.
The STA, chaired by state Transport Secretary Sanjay Sethi, accredited the fares in a gathering held on August 18, and they are going to be relevant throughout the state, an official from a regional transport workplace (RTO) stated.
The transport authority has fastened the fare for bike taxis utilizing the formulation devised by the Khatua panel, which has been in use to derive charges for autorickshaws and taxis, the official added.
The authority has additionally determined to evaluation bike taxi fares after one yr, it was acknowledged.
In January 2023, the federal government issued a GR prohibiting using personal or non-transport class two-wheelers for app-based providers.
Nevertheless, regardless of the ban, some firms continued to supply app-based bike taxi providers in Mumbai and different elements of the state utilizing personal two-wheelers.
The transport division has filed FIRs towards a few of these bike-taxi aggregators, who have been working illegally and charging dynamic fares.
Fares for bike taxis are considerably decrease than the minimal fares of black-and-yellow taxis and autorickshaws within the Mumbai Metropolitan Area.
Passengers pay a minimal fare of Rs 31 for black-and-yellow taxis and Rs 26 for autorickshaws.
Revealed on September 16, 2025