KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 10,000 taxi drivers have applied for individual permits and the Entrepreneurial and Co-operative Development Ministry is currently processing them.
Its minister Datuk Noh Omar said taxi drivers were given a chance to apply for individual permits for the first time from July 15 to Oct 15.
Prior to this, he said taxi permits were only given to companies and many of them ended up "dealing in buying and selling" of vehicles as the taxi drivers owned the vehicle without the permit.
The companies still owned the permits and not the drivers, said Noh.
Replying to Chow Kon Yeow (DAP - Tanjung) and Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh (BN - Kalabakan) in Parliament on Wednesday, Noh said the Government would be allocating another RM100mil as loans to be given to help taxi drivers to own vehicles.
