Mumbai, Nov 21 (PTI) Only 100 electric bike taxis have been registered in Mumbai in the last two months after the State Transport Authority (STA) granted provisional licences to three major aggregators, as per official data.

A senior RTO official told PTI that 50 electric bike taxis each of Rapido and Uber were registered at the Wadala RTO in September. All these vehicles are BGauss electric scooters, making them the only two-wheelers formally registered as bike taxis in the city so far.

As mandated in the rules, these bike taxis are painted yellow, and a cushion partition of about one feet height has been installed between the rider and pillion, the official said.

These taxis are registered in the `transport' category, having yellow number plates with black letters.

Significantly, the

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