Police tries to make mandal-hopping less troublesome for devotees by taking action against taxi drivers who refuse to ply

Thanks to a new drive by the Mumbai Traffic Police department, passengers no longer have to plead and fight with picky taxi drivers. They can register a complaint against cabbies with on-duty officials.

Recently, the traffic department recently caught more than 10,000 taxi drivers for refusing passengers. Speaking to Sunday MiD DAY, Ravi Gidde, Inspector, Officer-in-charge of Byculla Traffic Division said, "A week before Ganpati festival, Mumbai Traffic Police conducted a drive against taxi drivers who inconvenience passengers by turning them down. Around 10,000 cabbies across Mumbai (500 in Byculla region) were caught during the drive."