Mumbai auto drivers learning Marathi prioritize refusal phrases over basic communication. They have compiled essential ...

Autorickshaw drivers in Pune are anxious about upcoming mandatory Marathi language field tests. The state government will ...

Pune: Trip refusals in Pune continue unabated, despite the new Marathi language regulation putting autorickshaw drivers on ...

Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik said enforcement will begin against auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers lacking ...

Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP leader Haji Arfat Shaikh has said that auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers across the state will learn basic Marathi within 100 days, amid an ongoing controversy over the ...

Starting Thursday, August 20, officials from the Regional Transport Office (RTO) began their rounds, testing auto and taxi ...

A statewide inspection campaign is underway after the August 15 deadline for taxi and auto drivers to acquire functional ...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Transport Department will begin a statewide inspection and awareness drive from May 1 to promote basic Marathi among auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers, while also tightening ...

Flying squads tested 8,217 taxi and auto drivers across Maharashtra on Thursday. In the Mumbai region, 604 of 3,995 were ...

Since the policy was announced in April, transport unions, regional transport offices (RTOs) and political parties across Mumbai have been rushing to organise free Marathi coaching sessions and tests ...

Sarnaik said demands of autorickshaw and taxi unions to give non-Marathi drivers a fixed time to learn the language were reasonable and are being considered, he said. The minister's comments have come ...

The Maharashtra government is providing auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers a chance to learn Marathi before penalizing them for not meeting the language requirement, ensuring they can communicate ...