Rates for share autos and call taxis up
Posted on: 20/Sep/2018 3:36:26 PM
With the rising prices of petrol and diesel, the rates for share auto have been increased by up to Rs. 5.
In metro cities like Chennai, it is not possible to run the state transport local buses to all corners of the city. Because of this, the facility of share auto has integrated into the lifestyle of Chennai citizens. So, even where the state transport buses ply, the public prefer to travel by share auto for short distance travels saving time.
Over 10000 share autos operate in Chennai Metro. In the current period, there is an increasing trend in the price of petrol. With this, some share auto drivers, claiming that this price increase results in the loss for them, have raised the charge for share auto travel by up to Rs. 5.
In this regard, some share auto drivers shared - `we are already affected by the general low income that we earn in this business. With increasing price of petrol and diesel, our life in finance has been very strongly affected. We take the share auto from other owners on a rental basis and run our lives. Earlier, we generally earned Rs. 1000 per day.
`However, during the present times, it is rather hard to earn even Rs. 500 per day! With no other go, we are compelled to increase the share auto rates by up to Rs. 5 now. In case the price of petrol and diesel go further up, there may not be any other recourse except to increase the share auto rates further up!`
Meanwhile, citing the increase in petrol and diesel prices, the rates for the online booking of autos and call axis have also increased their rates without much din!
Further, the normal auto drivers demand to get an additional Rs. 10 citing the increase in petrol diesel prices. Some auto drivers fix the rate first before taking the passenger in.
