Uber has launched operations in Lucknow, its first in Uttar Pradesh. India is Uber’s largest geographic market and is now present in 29 cities in the country, the most outside the US and China. Globally, Uber is available in over 450 cities in 73 countries. The company claims to have 400,000 drivers on the platform in India. India is still Uber’s biggest market outside the US. The Lucknow launch comes almost a year after the company launched operations in Guwahati, Nashik, Thiruvananthapuram and Vadodara, a month after it expanded to 7 cities – Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, Indore, Mysore, Nagpur, Surat and Visakhapatnam. Uber launched in India in August 2013 in Bangalore. In June 2014, it launched its cheapest service UberX in India, and in October the same year, it launched its Uber for business in the country. A history of Uber in India: - In April 2015, Uber launched UberAUTO in Delhi and paused it in December 2015. In the same month, the Indian government ruled out banning cab-hailing apps like Uber and Ola, but said it would impose conditions to make their operations safer. - In May 2015, Uber started testing cash payments in Hyderabad. Globally, the company did not accept cash payments in any other city till this launch. - In June 2015, the Delhi Government rejected the applications for licence by Uber, Ola and TaxiForSure. Four months before that, the Delhi transport department had started a consultation with the Centre to block the IP address of Uber and shut down its…
