Post Driver Unrest, Odisha Moves To Introduce Cooperative-Led ‘Bharat Taxi’ Scheme

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is preparing to roll out Bharat Taxi scheme, a cooperative-based app-driven cab aggregator service intended to offer an alternative to private platforms such as Ola and Uber. In response to a inquiry by BJP MLA Tankadhar Tripathi, Cooperation Minister Pradeep Bal Samanta on Wednesday informed the Odisha Assembly in a written reply that the state government…