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Striking taxi drivers demands unreasonable: Goa tourism body
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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Apr, 2021
The tourism and travel industry in Goa have criticised taxi drivers in
the state, who have been on strike for more than 10 days, demanding
scrapping of an online app-based cab aggregator service.
"It is
an unreasonable demand. The state government has to remain firm," Nilesh
Shah, President of the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa, told
reporters on Saturday, even as the state administration denied striking
taxi operators the permission to gather at the city square for their
daily protest.
"The state transport system has to be reasonable,
transparent and on-time. Their demand to scrap the app-based taxi
service is unfair at a time when the world is moving the digital way,"
he said.
The Goa-based unit of the Confederation of Indian
Industry and other trade associations have also urged the state
government to not relent to the single point demand of the various
striking taxi driver associations, whose members operate nearly 30,000
cabs across the state.
Taxi operators in Goa have gone on strike,
demanding an immediate end to GoaMiles, a cab aggregator service,
backed by the state tourism development corporation, claiming it
impacted the livelihood of nearly 30,000 private tourist taxi operators
in the state.
A large section of tourist taxi drivers in Goa have
often been accused of overcharging, intimidating and operating in an
unregulated environment.
Following a slew of complaints, the
state Tourism Ministry in 2018 started 'GoaMiles' as an outsourced
private app-based taxi service.
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