While OV is likely to start operation from the railway station, in collaboration with the contract-holder of the app-based cab aggregators’, citizens claim that Ola cabs are still charging customers INR 25-INR 30 as ‘railway parking charge’, though the cab does not enter the railway premises. The commuters booking Ola cabs from their app at the railway station are still compelled to walk around 300 meters out of the station even as they pay the parking fee meant for inside the station premises.
This comes at a time when the Indian Railways have decided to levy a ‘station development fee’ that rail travellers will have to pay in case they board and/or alight at these selected railway stations across India proposed to be redeveloped.