 Early Times Report
LUCKNOW, Sept 23: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday launched Bharat Taxi and Mukhyamantri Krishak Samriddhi Yojana, taking two major steps for taxi drivers and farmers. Through Bharat Taxi, taxi, two-wheeler, and three-wheeler drivers can join with zero commission upon registration. They will also receive social security of Rs. 5 lakh.
Meanwhile, under Mukhyamantri Krishak Samriddhi Yojana, the interest rate on loans provided to farmers through LDB has been reduced from 11% to 06%.
Chief Minister stated, "The success of cooperation depends on whose hands are at its helm. Good leadership turns cooperation into a means of prosperity, while wrong leadership can lead it towards anarchy. For the first time after Independence, a separate Ministry of Cooperation was created in the country, and now its results are becoming visible."
Chief Minister said, "No one had thought about taxi, two-wheeler and three-wheeler drivers earlier. Now, upon registration, they will become part of Bharat Taxi on zero commission and will receive social security of Rs. 5 lakh. With social security, a driver can carry out his Work responsibly and without worry. When a person gets Bharat Taxi written on his vehicle, he will feel a sense of pride. Bharat Taxi is not merely a taxi that transports passengers. It is the taxi of entire India, which will work to transform India's speed into progress."
He further added that its operations have started in Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Varanasi and Prayagraj. MOUs have also been signed with various institutions, including Lucknow Airport, Lucknow Metro and Lucknow Police.
CM Yogi stated, "Before 2017, when people traveled in taxis or three-wheelers, they would not pay the fare. They would find that goons associated with the ruling party had boarded the taxi. They would beat up the taxi driver, throw him away, and disappear with the taxi. They would scrap all the stolen vehicles in Meerut and change their chassis. Before 2017, forget about two-wheelers, three-wheelers and four-wheelers; if someone was traveling in a buffalo cart and got down for a while to have tea or go to the urinal, on returning he would find that the buffalo had disappeared and only the wooden carriage remained."
He added that if a taxi was parked somewhere, it would be found that even the tires had disappeared. This was the actual situation in Uttar Pradesh. The condition of the roads was such that one could not even tell whether there was a pothole in the road or the road was in the pothole. |
