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Gig workers News
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This assumes significance in view of the Budget announcement earlier this month by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman about rolling out of a social security scheme for one crore gig workers engaged with online platforms.
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Budget 2025: Notably, the scheme has no restrictions on family size, age, or gender, ensuring that all eligible individuals receive the care they need.
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The state government has already drafted a bill to protect the rights of platform-based gig workers.
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Minister of State for Electronics and IT and Skill Development Rajeev Chandrasekhar backs moonlighting.
'Days are long gone when employees signed up with big tech majors and spent their lives on the job', he says.
Moonlighting meaning taking side gigs or projects along with a regular job secretively.
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This is nearly one-third of the total workforce in informal sector in India.
It includes construction workers, migrant workers, gig workers and platform workers, street vendors, domestic workers, agriculture workers, etc.
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