Karnataka Favours Cab Pooling, Want Change In Law

The Karnataka transport department's decision to ban ride sharing for taxi aggregators Uber and Ola has not gone down well with those who believe this form of car-pooling will reduce traffic congestion, besides saving money for the customer. The state is hanging onto the nearly 30-year-old Motor Vehicles Act, made long before taxi aggregators arrived on the scene but applicable across India -- that says only buses can pick UP passengers from multiple locations. At present, cab-pooling is giving competition to buses, a chunk of which is the domain of the state.