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This research is only as good as the record behind it, and most of that record is sitting with people who took the ride, drove the shift, or hold the document. Four ways to add to it. Everything gets checked before it is published, and everything published carries its evidence tier.
Reading the white paper or the dossier? Both list what is still unverified. This page is how that gets closed.
Before you send anything
- Send originals, not crops. A screenshot keeps its timestamp and a photo keeps its metadata. Once an image has been forwarded and cropped, it stops being evidence.
- Redact yourself first. Ride receipts carry your name, your number and your exact pickup address. Black those out. The fare fields are what matter.
- No identifiable drivers. Do not send photographs of a driver's face or a number plate for publication. If it is central to what happened, send it and say so, and it will be used as background only.
- Say how you know. Firsthand, heard from someone, or holding a document. Every claim published here is tagged by how it was established, and unmarked material cannot be used at all.
- You choose the attribution. Named, anonymous, or background only. The default is anonymous.
Four tracks
Photos, receipts, screenshots and video go by WhatsApp, not through these forms — there is a button under each track. That keeps uploads out of a browser form and means you do not need an account anywhere.
2 · Document drop
The single most useful thing anyone can send. Much of the published research on this subject rests on press reports rather than the primary document, because the documents are not online. A circular, a gazette page, an RTI reply or an RTA minute closes that gap immediately.
Send the document itself on WhatsApp
3 · Correction
Corrections are how a claim moves between evidence tiers, so they are treated as contributions rather than complaints. If something here is wrong, stale, or resting on a weaker source than it should be, this is the fastest way to fix it.
Send supporting material on WhatsApp
4 · Driver earnings
The recommendation for a minimum per-trip payment currently rests on New York's numbers because Bengaluru's do not exist in public. If enough drivers send a day or a week, they will. Nothing here identifies anyone, and the published version will only ever be ranges and medians.
Send a screenshot of your earnings page on WhatsApp
Adopt an open question
The dossier's unverified tier lists what is not yet established. Any one of these could be settled by a person with an afternoon, an RTI application, or the right phone number. Claim one and report back — you will be credited unless you ask not to be.
What does "prescribed meter" actually mean?Is it a Legal Metrology stamped device, or would a certified software fare display satisfy the circular? The compliance cost and the entire feasibility question turn on this, and no reporting answers it.
Does the 20 August circular carry a deadline or a vendor list?Nobody has published the circular text. An RTI to the Commissioner for Transport and Road Safety would produce it.
Has Karnataka adopted the July 2025 central aggregator guidelines?The Union advised adoption within three months. If Karnataka has adopted them, a fare band up to twice base fare conflicts directly with the fixed ceiling the meters exist to enforce.
How many autos recalibrated to the August 2025 fare?And how many fitness certificates were withheld for failing to. If that number is near zero, the current circular has already been answered.
Has any aggregator been penalised since February 2024?Not issued a notice — penalised, with a rupee figure collected.
What are Nagara's ride volumes now?It is the cleanest available test of whether the notified fare can attract supply, and it is going unmeasured.
Claim one on WhatsApp
What happens to what you send
- Nothing is published unread. Every submission is checked before anything derived from it appears.
- Anything published is tagged by how it was established — documented, directional, or unverified — the same as everything else on this site.
- Ride reports and earnings data are only ever published in aggregate: ranges, medians, distributions. No individual submission is reproduced.
- Documents are published as received, with personal details redacted, unless you ask for background only.
- Your contact details are used to follow up on your submission and for nothing else. They are not published, shared, or added to any list.
- If a correction changes something, the change is made and noted. Nothing is quietly edited.
This is an independent research project. It is not affiliated with the Government of Karnataka, any transport department, any platform, or any union. Submissions may be quoted, in the form described above, in future versions of the white paper and dossier.