Chennai: Uber has said its Hyderabad-based Risk Intelligence team enabled timely payments to driver partners for getting vaccine shots. The payments were to compensate driver partners for the time they spent getting inoculated.
Uber had launched an Rs 18.5 crore initiative to help get 150,000 drivers. on its platform vaccinated. Over 100,000 drivers have already had at least their first dose administered to them.
The team leveraged the agile, in-house tool, âSherlockâ, to scan through the vaccination certificates uploaded by driver partners and verify credentials, followed by managing payouts to them, it said.