Bharat Taxi will guarantee minimum base rate per kilometre for all drivers: Amit Shah

The newly launched cooperative cab service, Bharat Taxi, will guarantee a minimum base rate per kilometre for all drivers on its platform, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday (February 23, 2026). Emphasising that profits made from the service would be redirected to drivers, he also said it would take at least three years for the profits to be redirected.

“Those who toil the most should get the most profit,” Mr. Shah said, addressing a town hall interaction with cab and autorickshaw drivers from the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), and Gujarat. Existing ride-hailing aggregators had deliberately avoided setting a base rate to maximise corporate profits at the expense of workers, the Minister added. The cooperative ride-hailing platform would return 80% of profits to drivers based on kilometres driven, with the remaining 20% retained as cooperative capital.

“Whatever business you do, your minimum should be fixed. And whatever is more than that has to come back to you,” Mr. Shah said, elaborating that Bharat Taxi would follow the ‘Amul model’. Thirty-six lakh “mothers and sisters” had invested just ₹50 each and built Amul, which has a turnover of ₹1,25,000 crore, he said. “In a private dairy, the profit goes to the owner. In Amul, 85% goes back to the producer. Bharat Taxi is the same concept for mobility,” he said.