Rahul
@rahulatiitd
Assistant Professor, Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, @trip_centre @iitdelhi @southasiacycles [email protected]
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In @apsrjournal, @adam_m_auerbach, @shikhar_46, and @tariqthachil surveyed small town politicians in India and found that local government officials lack procedural knowledge on how to govern. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
This is an important point. The very fact that such a conflict exists, regardless of which side one takes, shows deep incompetence on the part of the government.
In Ludhiana’s Janta Nagar area, cycle puller Subhash carries a mirror to check if his eyes are turning red from the heat and a packet of buttermilk he can drink to cool down. Scorching heat in India's bicycle capital grips migrant workers and even an early morning ride is a…
10/This isn’t gig economy empowerment—it’s technofeudalism in neoliberal wrapping. The state didn’t just step back; it outsourced governance to platforms. What we’re seeing is worse than taxi cartels: a corporate takeover of public functions, with brutal consequences for workers.
@rahulatiitd thanks for asking my opinion on it. I agree in part—but the story is more nuanced. Local taxi caps in India weren’t pushed by cartels. Courts imposed them, citing congestion. Cartels just exploited the system by controlling permits & creating a grey market.
Progressives justify banning cab aggregators by citing gig worker rights. But drivers still prefer aggregators, even with lower pay, because local taxi cartels long restricted new drivers and pushed for caps, limiting opportunities well before aggregators arrived on the scene.
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