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Uber launches Uber X in India and plans to launch in several tier-2 cities

After starting their service in India last year, Uber has launched its affordable service Uber X service in India. These cars will have a base price of Rs 50 and per kilometre charge of Rs 15 as opposed to UberBlack's base price of Rs 90 and per kilometre charge Rs 25. It is also worth noting that the cancellation fee for Uber X is Rs 150 as opposed to Rs 200 for Uber Black. The vehicles that will be used for Uber X service includes Maruti Swift Dzire, Toyota Etios and Nissan Sunny, while Uber Black has vehicles such as Toyota Altis, Mercedes-Benz E-Class and Honda Accord. The Uber app will now display a slider at the bottom that lets you select between the two offerings by the company. However, when we tried the service in Bangalore we couldn't get any car. That's one area that Uber really needs to work on. May be they have fewer cars on the road as part of this service since it just launched. But what is Uber actually working on?  It looks like the company is planning to roll out its service in more cities across the country. As of now Uber is available in Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai. The company is looking to hire operations & logistics managers, community managers, and general managers in Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kolkata, Pune and Surat. Community managers are the people handling Uber accounts on Twitter and they focus on keeping users happy and on getting more users to try…

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