Visually impaired Mallika Patil, 28, commutes 13 kilometres daily in Bengaluru to attend office. The genesis of the Namma Yatri app is interesting. It was launched in November 2022 as an answer to big cab aggregators that have taken over the streets of Bengaluru. The city's auto drivers were at the forefront in the launch of the "homegrown app" (Namma in the local Kannada language is "our" and Yatri means "traveller"). The drivers, who were reeling under acute financial distress because of the coronavirus pandemic, had no patience to tolerate their masters (cab aggregators) making maximum profits out of their labour.