NEW DELHI: Beleaguered taxi aggregator Uber has offered to pay each of its drivers in Delhi an amount pegged to the average income of the past four weeks for the next few days to compensate them for the loss of earnings in the wake of a ban on its operations.With this, the San Francisco based firm, whose operations in India have been ordered shut after last week’s rape incident involving one of its drivers, hopes to earn the loyalty of these drivers and attract them back on its network as and when its operations commence.“We got a message saying we will get the ‘ausat rakam (average sum) of whatever we earned in last four weeks. It is a welcome move. This will at least help us plan for next month,” said Sandeep Bishnoi, a driver who used to earn about 40,000 a month.While Uber was unavailable for comment, a source in the company said the company has decided to pay every driver enrolled with them an average of their last four weeks’ salaries for a few days, in keeping with a promise to drivers that it would financially compensate them. On Wednesday, Uber sent out a text message in Hindi to all drivers on its network in Delhi telling them that “with a lot of sadness we have to tell you that Uber is closing down operations in Delhi for a few days”.However, Allen Penn, head of Asia operations at Uber had told ET then that the company “will compensate the drivers in any way we can, which includes financially for the loss of work”.Drivers operating on the Uber network, all of them operating cars sporting tourist taxi registrations and many of them owners of their vehicles, used to make anywhere between 30,000 and 90,000 each month depending on the number of hours they put in.But ever since the ban on mobile app-based taxi firms, most of them have had to stop plying their vehicles fearful of being caught by police. “They (police) see our DLY boards which have All India Permit and fine us. Though these are our cars, they tell us we are not permitted to drive them because they have been financed by Uber,” said Randeep Mardu, a driver.The increased police scrutiny, drivers say, has led to loss of income and an uncertain future for many of them who have taken loans to buy their cars and have to pay their financiers.Most drivers pay monthly installments of more than 20,000 to banks and finance companies every month and failure to keep up these payments could result in the cars being seized.