{"id":951814,"date":"2025-08-01T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951814"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:09:52","slug":"odisha-plans-road-safety-training-for-gig-workers-amid-rising-delivery-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/odisha-plans-road-safety-training-for-gig-workers-amid-rising-delivery-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha plans road safety training for gig workers amid rising delivery risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: With the race among online aggregators intensifying to deliver in the shortest possible time which leaves delivery partners vulnerable to hazards, the Odisha government is contemplating to train the gig workers on road safety and emergency response mechanisms. <\/p>\n<p>The Commerce and Transport department has asked the Transport commissioner to take appropriate action after the Labour and ESI department urged it to take steps for enforceable safety standards which aggregators and platform companies must adhere to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: With the race among online aggregators intensifying to deliver in the shortest possible time which leaves delivery partners vulnerable to hazards, the Odisha government is contemplating to train the gig workers on road safety and emergency response mechanisms. The Commerce and Transport department has asked the Transport commissioner to take appropriate action after the Labour and ESI department urged it to take steps for enforceable safety standards which aggregators and platform companies must adhere to.<\/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-951814","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\/951814","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=951814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}