2023-09-01 06:21:39
After the meeting between the national government, headed by President Gustavo Petro, and the country’s taxi driver organizations, which ended towards the end of the day on Friday, August 25, the national government announced the official start of the fuel compensation process for drivers. taxi.
Through two official documents, the government of President Gustavo Petro announced that this process will have several stages, among which are the registration of the beneficiaries and the measurement of the gasoline consumption of the vehicles of the Taxi drivers.
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“Fulfilling the word of the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro Urrego, the Ministry of Transportation announces that the process to achieve fuel compensation for taxi drivers is beginning, which involves several stages,” the statement said.
According to the Vice Minister of Transportation, Eduardo Enríquez Caicedo, the first thing that drivers of the yellow spot must take into account is that they must update the Runt data as of the date. In this way, they will keep track of the people who will access the new measure.
So drivers who do not comply with this step will not be able to access the differential fuel rate. Likewise, the other steps will be made known with the process, for the moment these were what the government pointed out.
On the other hand, the official document explains that there will be a joint effort between the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Mines and the Ministry of Transportation, to carry out a precise measurement of the fuel consumption of these vehicles throughout the national territory, as a second passed.
“This consumption is very different from that in Bogotá, in the municipalities of the coast or in the south of the country. This will also allow us to have greater control over this average”, assured the vice minister of transport.
In this way, the national government plans that the first financial compensation to taxi drivers can be given at the end of September
Finally, from the Ministry of Transportation, they continue to implement the strategies to make the energy transition possible and they want public service drivers to be part of them.
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“The sub-account for the country’s energy transition has already been created in the National Development Plan. Today it is the most important commitment in transportation by the national government and we want to fulfill it hand in hand with you”, concluded the vice minister, referring to the taxi driver union.
These were the documents issued by the government on the differential rate.
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