Maharashtra mandates Marathi for auto and taxi drivers from May 1, with tests on reading, writing, and speaking. Failure to ...

Mumbai taxi and auto drivers will undergo Marathi language verification from May 1, with licences at risk for those who fail ...

Drivers who do not clear a basic Marathi test, including reading signboards, writing simple sentences and holding conversations, risk losing their licences.

Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik said that drivers must be able to read and write Marathi, warning that failure to meet this ...

Marathi must in Maharashtra: State transport minister Pratap Sarnaik, in a statement, has said auto drivers should be able to ...

Maharashtra mandates Marathi for auto and taxi drivers from May 1, enforcing language proficiency tests to improve ...

The state government is all set to launch a large-scale verification drive to enforce the rule by conducting checks across 59 ...

Pratap Sarnaik, Maharashtra’s Transport Minister, has announced that from 1 May, all licensed auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers ...

Starting from May 1, the Maharashtra government mandates that rickshaw and taxi drivers be fluent in Marathi. The Motor ...

Sarnaik noted that while the rule requiring knowledge of the local language for issuing licences is already in force, it is ...

This comes after the Transport Department has received numerous complaints, particularly from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region ...