Rajasthan CM launches ‘Bharat Taxi’ cooperative mobility service in Jaipur
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma launched the cooperative ‘Bharat Taxi’ mobility service in Jaipur, with driver-partners described as cooperative owners and trip payments credited directly to them.
- Bharat Taxi links taxi-and-last-mile travel to cooperatives, where cooperative members become owners (Sarathis).
- A Sarathi is a cooperative member/shareholder, has board representation, and gets trip payments credited directly to their account.
- Bharat Taxi puts ownership with drivers (Sarathis), while private aggregators mainly treat drivers as service providers without ownership in the platform.
- Bharat Taxi expansion in Rajasthan used memoranda of understanding with Rajasthan Police, Saras, Jaipur Municipal Corporation, and Jaipur Metro.
What happened: Bharat Taxi launched in Jaipur as a cooperative mobility model
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma launched the ‘Bharat Taxi’ service in Jaipur at the Harish Chandra Mathur Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration. Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah’s leadership was cited in the programme backdrop, with Union Minister of State for Cooperation Murlidhar Mohol and other officials, ministers, and cooperative sector representatives present.
What the Bharat Taxi model claims to do
UPSC framing can treat Bharat Taxi as an example of cooperative institution-building in an urban service sector: transforming a “driver as worker” role into a “driver as cooperative shareholder and board-represented member,” and testing whether direct payout and insurance can improve livelihoods in shared mobility.
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