About us
A better way to book the shared taxi you were going to take anyway
Online Taxi Stand is the customer-facing product of Meghalaya Cabs — a Bengaluru-headquartered venture rebuilding the shared-taxi experience in Northeast India, one corridor at a time.
The problem
The shared-taxi model works — barely.
Anyone who has taken a shared taxi between Guwahati and Shillong knows the drill. You show up at the stand. You wait. The car fills up on its own schedule. You pay in cash. You take whichever driver is next in line and hope for the best.
It works because it has to. The route is a lifeline for lakhs of passengers a year — students, tourists, family travellers, working professionals moving between two of Northeast India's biggest cities. And yet, in 2026, none of it is bookable in advance. None of it is transparent. None of it tells you who your driver will be, when the car will actually leave, or what the fare will be until you're already inside.
What's missing is not a new taxi service — it's infrastructure. A way to hold your seat online, know your driver, see the fare up-front, and settle any dispute afterwards. That's an engineering problem before it's a taxi problem, and it's the problem we're here to solve.
What we're building
A booking platform that respects your time — and the driver's.
Search
Pick your pickup point, drop, and date. See real cabs from real drivers.
Choose your seat
Front, window, back — you decide. See the price before you commit.
Reserve for ₹100
Secure Razorpay. Cash to the driver post-trip. Full refund if we can't allot a cab.
Travel
Driver name, vehicle number, and WhatsApp confirmation when your cab is ready.
About the founder
Raj Kiran Atagaraha
Founder, Meghalaya Cabs · Bengaluru
Over 10+ years as a data engineer, Raj has built the systems that big Indian consumer products run on. At PhonePe — India's largest UPI app — he wrote the pipelines that transaction data flowed through, where “the numbers must be right, and the system must not go down” was the entire job description. At ZestMoney, he led one of Indian fintech's more ambitious data-warehouse migrations — Amazon Redshift to Snowflake. At Enlyft, he built the data platform behind a next-generation B2B AI product.
Snowflake, Redshift, Kafka, Postgres, Python, SSIS, Tableau — the toolkit of an engineer whose systems had to be both fast and correct at scale.
That discipline is what Online Taxi Stand ships. Bookings that don't drop under load. A ₹100 advance that refunds automatically when we can't deliver a taxi. Driver allotment that respects the stand's queue — earning driver trust rather than bypassing it. Every seat, every fare, every rupee, designed to hold up when 10 rides a day becomes 10,000.
What we won't compromise on
Four principles baked into the platform
Same price for everyone on the trip
No surge, no dynamic pricing, no haggling. The fare you see is what everyone on the cab pays.
Driver dignity, not disintermediation
We amplify the existing taxi-stand queue instead of replacing it. Drivers earn more per empty seat filled; unions gain a modern demand channel.
Refund if we can't deliver
If we can't allot a taxi, your ₹100 is refunded automatically. No forms, no follow-ups.
Verified drivers only
Aadhaar, driving licence, vehicle RC, and a real onboarding call — checked before a driver ever gets a booking.
Where we're going
Launched on one corridor. Built for all of Northeast India.
Guwahati ↔ Shillong — five vehicle tiers, verified drivers, ₹100 advance, cash to driver, WhatsApp + email confirmations.
Assam interiors and the Meghalaya tourism circuit — Cherrapunjee, Dawki, Mawlynnong — as booking volume warrants inventory.
Barak Valley, Arunachal, and travel-agency partner network so travel operators can book seats on our fleet directly.
Have a question? Chat with a real human.
Corporate bookings, agency partnerships, feedback on a trip you took, or just curious about the platform — we reply on WhatsApp within business hours.