The Maharashtra Government framed new rules for recruitment of taxi-drivers in Mumbai. As per the new rule, a person applying for driver's post must have fifteen years of domicile of Maharashtra. The new rule formed also stresses on the fact that the person must know how to read and write Marathi. The Maharashtra Cabinet has decided not to give any further registration to migrants for taxis as the numbers have already been surged. The decision has come out to curb it on the roads as more than four thousand applications have been filed to obtain new by the taxi drivers.