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Ban on ride-sharing is regressive: Karnataka IT minister

Last month, the Karnataka transport department banned ridesharing services

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Apurva Venkat Bengaluru
Priyank Kharge, the young IT minister of Karnataka, believes that the recent ban on ridesharing services from Uber and Ola by the state transport department were regressive, pointing out that laws often evolve much slower than technology.

Kharge has a tough task of balancing support to his government's move of banning ridesharing while still retaining the confidence of these companies to attract investments into the state.

"We have banned carpooling (ridesharing). It is a regressive step in my personal opinion but it is as per the Motor Vehicles Act of 1988. We need to change. So the policies