{"id":999688,"date":"2026-03-27T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999688"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:03:09","slug":"govt-to-set-up-rest-stops-for-gig-workers-welfare-board-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/govt-to-set-up-rest-stops-for-gig-workers-welfare-board-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to set up rest stops for gig workers, welfare board soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flagging the daily hardships faced by gig workers, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday said the Delhi Government will create rest facilities attached to Atal Canteens, offering them a place to eat, recharge and take a break during long work hours. <\/p>\n<p>While presenting the Rs 1.03 lakh crore budget for FY2026-27 in the Assembly, Gupta said that gig workers, many of whom spend several hours on two-wheelers navigating city traffic, often struggle to find safe pit stops to eat meals or charge their phones. The lack of such facilities has also been linked to a rise in fatigue-related road accidents, Gupta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flagging the daily hardships faced by gig workers, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday said the Delhi Government will create rest facilities attached to Atal Canteens, offering them a place to eat, recharge and take a break during long work hours. While presenting the Rs 1.03 lakh crore budget for FY2026-27 in the Assembly, Gupta said that gig workers, many of whom spend several hours on two-wheelers navigating city traffic, often struggle to find safe pit stops to eat meals or charge their phones. The lack of such facilities has also been linked to a rise in fatigue-related road accidents, [&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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999688","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=999688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}