{"id":193054,"date":"2022-06-29T20:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=193054"},"modified":"2022-06-29T20:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:13:26","slug":"niti-aayogs-report-on-indias-gig-economy-what-has-the-think-tank-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/niti-aayogs-report-on-indias-gig-economy-what-has-the-think-tank-recommended\/","title":{"rendered":"Niti Aayog\u2019s report on India\u2019s gig economy: what has the think-tank recommended?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NITI Aayog has released a report titled \u2018India\u2019s Booming Gig and Platform Economy\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is \u201cIndia\u2019s Booming Gig and Platform Economy\u201d Report?<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/niti-aayog-launches-report-on-indias-gig-and-platform-economy\/\"><b>Click Here to read about the report<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the other findings of the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>LFPR of Women and Person with Disabilities<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Female Labour Force Participation in India has remained low varying between 16% to 23% in the last few years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, Persons with Disabilities who make up 2.11 to 10% of India\u2019s population have a labour force participation rate of 36%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Structural barriers like access to education and lack of skilling have hindered the participation of the two demographic groups in the country\u2019s labour force.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the recommendations of the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Fiscal incentives<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as tax breaks or startup grants may be provided for businesses that provide livelihood opportunities where women constitute a substantial portion (30%) of their workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Businesses should have <\/span><b>a higher share of women managers and supervisors<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the organization to ensure that communication to workers does not perpetuate gender stereotypes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adopt <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">policies that <\/span><b>offer old age or retirement plans and benefits, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and other insurance covers for contingencies such as injury arising from work that may lead to loss of employment and income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cNiti Aayog\u2019s report on India\u2019s gig economy: what has the think-tank recommended?\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 29th June 2022<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? NITI Aayog has released a report titled \u2018India\u2019s Booming Gig and Platform Economy\u2019. What is \u201cIndia\u2019s Booming Gig and Platform Economy\u201d Report? Click Here to read about the report What are the other findings of the report? LFPR of Women and Person with Disabilities The Female Labour Force Participation in India&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/niti-aayogs-report-on-indias-gig-economy-what-has-the-think-tank-recommended\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Niti Aayog\u2019s report on India\u2019s gig economy: what has the think-tank recommended?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,1305,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-193054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700771862,"cached_date":1704909306},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}