{"id":1011042,"date":"2026-05-30T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011042"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:26:36","slug":"centre-weighs-social-security-schemes-for-gig-workers-as-workforce-likely-to-reach-2-5-crore-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/30\/centre-weighs-social-security-schemes-for-gig-workers-as-workforce-likely-to-reach-2-5-crore-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre weighs social security schemes for gig workers as workforce likely to reach 2.5 crore by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is working on social security schemes for gig and platform workers as their numbers are projected to rise to 2.5 crore by the end of the decade, a senior labour ministry official said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>India currently has around 1 crore gig workers, including those associated with app-based food delivery and ride-hailing platforms. The government is collecting workforce data through the labour ministry\u2019s e-Shram portal, where all platforms have been asked to update worker details by June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is working on social security schemes for gig and platform workers as their numbers are projected to rise to 2.5 crore by the end of the decade, a senior labour ministry official said on Friday. India currently has around 1 crore gig workers, including those associated with app-based food delivery and ride-hailing platforms. The government is collecting workforce data through the labour ministry\u2019s e-Shram portal, where all platforms have been asked to update worker details by June 22.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011042","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=1011042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011073,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011042\/revisions\/1011073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}