The Government of Karnataka, which published the draft rules for online cab aggregators in state, cites that companies which do not have a technology aggregator taxi service license will not be allowed to operate in the state and that drivers are free to work with other aggregators as per their choice, among other things. Also read: Why Karnataka’s cab aggregator rules are good, bad and ambiguous MediaNama, which got an exclusive copy of the rules (find the entire document in images below) lists the other rules that online cab aggregators will need to follow if the draft, titled ‘Karnataka On Demand Transportation Technology Aggregators Rules, 2016’ comes into effect 30 days from date of issue (9 Feb 2016). Although multiple publications carried the news (also stating that the document was in the public domain), the document was not accessible online. MediaNama had to interact with and visit multiple government departments and RTOs to get a copy of the guidelines. On contacting Ola and Uber about this, Uber said that it would only comment once the guidelines were available online and did not have a copy of the guidelines. Ola, on the other hand, was able to make a copy of the guidelines from MediaNama’s hard copy but said that it would issue a statement after its internal teams had taken a look at it. In an interview with MediaNama, HG Kumar, the Additional Commissioner for Transport and Secretary of the State Transport Authority (STA) of Karnataka, said that these rules have…
