Taxi drivers encouraged to use e-hailing mobile app: Nancy

KUALA LUMPUR: The government, alongside the Land Public Transport Commission will continue its effort in encouraging taxi drivers to migrate to using the e-hailing mobile application, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri (pix).
"Currently only 14,000 taxi drivers are registered with the e-hailing platform, but I am very confident the number is increasing," she told reporters after attending a town hall session at the Petrosains After Hours 'Urban/XMalaysia: Driving Innovation towards National Transformation 2050 (TN50)' event held here, today.
Nancy said the government encouraged more taxi drivers to use the e-hailing platform because it did not want them to lose out.
Malaysia created history when it became the first country to make e-hailing services such as Grab and Uber legally binding public transport services under the Land Public Transport (Amendment) Bill 2017 and the Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board (Amendment) Bill 2017, which were passed in Parliament last week.
Earlier, Nancy heard and responded to TN50 aspirations made by social entrepreneurs, university students, government servants and youth movement leaders.
Some of these aspirations included abolishing government subsidies, focusing more on rural areas in terms of development, improving the Malaysian education system, having a human touch in coexistence with technological advancement, as well as the need to have a more unified and harmonious Malaysia. — Bernama