India, Oct. 24 -- Bike taxi riders may have to purchase short-term passes, either daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly, as part of measures to tighten documentation required when signing up with an aggregator.

Sources in the transport department said that unlike cabbies and autorickshaw drivers, many bike taxi riders don't operate this service as a full-time job. They use it as a secondary means to earn, while travelling to work or after their work day ends. "We have learnt this from the aggregator companies as well as the riders," said a transport department official.

By making passes mandatory, the transport authorities are trying to add a layer of security to the bike taxi service after one of the accused in the Tiger Shroff shootin...