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New player in Mumbai takes away 700 Ola, Uber drivers

New player in Mumbai takes away 700 Ola, Uber drivers
Written by Pallabi C Samal
May 05, 2018, 09:44 pm 2 min read
New player in Mumbai takes away 700 Ola, Uber drivers

A major setback awaits Ola and Uber in Mumbai. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will launch a new cab aggregator next week, S3 Cabs, which claims it will focus more on drivers' benefits, unlike its competitors. 700 drivers, mostly from Ola and Uber, have reportedly joined S3 Cabs even before its launch. The parent company is expecting another 4,000 drivers in next couple of months.

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S3 cabbies will be charged 50% less than Uber, Ola

Talking about the drivers' benefits, Sohel Kazani, director, Sahayadri Smart Safe, which owns S3 Cabs said, "Drivers will not be charged for first Rs. 1,800 collection every day and after that, they'll be charged only at 10%, which is just 50% of what Uber and Ola charge their drivers." Another major factor that helped Kazani was the support of 10 unions, including MNS-affiliated ones.

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Kazani is right. Getting support from MNS-affiliated unions is important

Though Uber and Ola didn't comment on this, but getting MNS-affiliated unions' support is indeed a big benefit because not too long ago, MNS transport wing spearheaded an Uber-Ola drivers' strike that lasted for full three days, causing major inconvenience to commuters.

Future plans
Cab partners will also double up as delivery boys: Kazani

Kazani admits that this way, he might not be able to mint money and that it's just a CSR activity. So he has other plans in place. He'd deploy his cab-partners into the domain he has worked for decades: transportation and delivery. He said, on a daily basis, Mumbai gets over 1L deliveries, but the system isn't adequate yet. That's where he'll come in.

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App for small delivery trucks being thought of too!

"Three months down the line, we'll have an app for small delivery trucks acting as couriers for e-tailers and focus will only be on cash-on-delivery mode as this has highest margin in the segment because service fee is charged on value of cargo," he added.

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Pallabi C Samal is an entertainment editor at NewsBytes. She has over seven years of experience in journalism and content development. She has previously worked with The Pioneer, The Quint, and Mid-Day on the national desk. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from Bangalore University and a postgraduate diploma in journalism and mass communication from the Times School of Journalism.
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