{"id":1005421,"date":"2026-04-28T10:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005421"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:55:29","slug":"delhi-gig-workers-reel-under-extreme-heatwave-with-little-support-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/delhi-gig-workers-reel-under-extreme-heatwave-with-little-support-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Gig workers reel under extreme heatwave with little support available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As the capital reels under an unforgiving heatwave, with temperatures reaching nearly 45\u00b0C, the city\u2019s army of gig workers \u2013 delivery riders, courier agents, and app-based service providers \u2013 find themselves on the frontlines of a crisis with little protection. <\/p>\n<p>For these workers, the harshest hours are between noon and 4 pm, when the sun is at its peak and demand for food and grocery deliveries surges. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the time when orders spike, but it\u2019s also when stepping outside feels like stepping into fire,\u201d says Ramesh, a food delivery rider who spends nearly 10 hours a day on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: As the capital reels under an unforgiving heatwave, with temperatures reaching nearly 45\u00b0C, the city\u2019s army of gig workers \u2013 delivery riders, courier agents, and app-based service providers \u2013 find themselves on the frontlines of a crisis with little protection. For these workers, the harshest hours are between noon and 4 pm, when the sun is at its peak and demand for food and grocery deliveries surges. \u201cThis is the time when orders spike, but it\u2019s also when stepping outside feels like stepping into fire,\u201d says Ramesh, a food delivery rider who spends nearly 10 hours a day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005501,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005421\/revisions\/1005501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}