{"id":1043125,"date":"2026-10-14T10:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043125"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:18:40","slug":"most-food-delivery-riders-in-kochi-are-graduates-39-per-cent-below-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/14\/most-food-delivery-riders-in-kochi-are-graduates-39-per-cent-below-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Most food delivery riders in Kochi are graduates; 39 per cent below 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Graduates make up the biggest portion of food delivery riders in Kochi, while nearly half are the primary breadwinners of their families, a new study has found. <\/p>\n<p>Close to 60% of Kochi\u2019s food delivery riders possess a degree or higher qualification, and nearly 90% have studied at least up to higher secondary, said the study \u2018Intra State Migration and Labour Market Entry in the Platform Economy: Evidence from Food Delivery Workers in Kochi, Keralam\u2019 by Unnimaya U G, a research scholar at the Madras Institute of Development Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Graduates make up the biggest portion of food delivery riders in Kochi, while nearly half are the primary breadwinners of their families, a new study has found. Close to 60% of Kochi\u2019s food delivery riders possess a degree or higher qualification, and nearly 90% have studied at least up to higher secondary, said the study \u2018Intra State Migration and Labour Market Entry in the Platform Economy: Evidence from Food Delivery Workers in Kochi, Keralam\u2019 by Unnimaya U G, a research scholar at the Madras Institute of Development Studies.<\/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-1043125","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\/1043125","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=1043125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043186,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043125\/revisions\/1043186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}