as people prefer to use online taxi services many of the conventional taxi stands have disappeared and a large number of motor transport workers have been rendered jobless the government had saidthiruvananthapuram kerala chief minister pinarayi vijayan on wednesday launched the ldf governments own etaxi service app named kerala savari which is considered to be the first such initiative by any state in the country vijayan also flagged off at the app launch event the autorickshaws which would be operating under the new online taxi hiring service that has been rolled out by the state labour department advt under the new initiative the objective is to link the existing autorickshawtaxi networks in kerala with an aim to ensure safe and disputefree travel for the public at affordable rates prevailing in the state it is also envisaged as a helping hand to the autorickshawtaxi labour sector which is facing several challenges the government had said last month when it had announced the launch of the service the government had said it has been learnt that there was a difference of 2030 per cent between the rate received by the motor transport labourers and the rate charged from the passengers in all the existing online cab services as people prefer to use online taxi services many of the conventional taxi stands have disappeared and a large number of motor transport workers have been rendered jobless the government had said the kerala motor transport workers welfare fund board is the implementation agency which would act with the support of the departments like legal metrology transport it police and so on kerala savari would charge only eight per cent service charge in addition to the rate fixed by the government which was 20 to 30 per cent in other online taxis the government had said the amount collected as service charge would be utilised for the project implementation and promotional incentives for passengers and drivers it added advt a police clearance certificate has been made mandatory for drivers joining the scheme and the app also has the feature of a panic button which can be used in case there is any accident or another similar danger it has been decided to implement the scheme across the state at present as many as 500 autotaxi drivers in the thiruvananthapuram corporation limits are the members of the scheme officials of various departments have imparted training to them in various subjects the government had said pti published on aug 17 2022 at 0613 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis