{"id":193465,"date":"2022-07-01T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T04:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=193465"},"modified":"2022-09-27T15:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T10:17:32","slug":"answered-enumerate-niti-aayogs-recommendations-for-the-betterment-of-gig-and-platform-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-enumerate-niti-aayogs-recommendations-for-the-betterment-of-gig-and-platform-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Enumerate NITI Aayog&#8217;s recommendations for the betterment of gig and platform workers."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"624\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Contextual introduction.<br \/>\n<strong>Body:<\/strong> Write some points related to NITI Aayog&#8217;s recommendations for the betterment of gig and platform workers.<br \/>\n<strong>Conclusion:<\/strong> Write a way forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A gig worker is a person who engages in income-earning activities outside of a traditional employer-employee relationship, as well as in the informal sector. When gig workers use platforms i.e., websites or apps like Ola, Uber, Dunzo, Zomato, Swiggy or Urban Company- to connect with customers, they are called platform workers. For India, four industry sectors can be identified as the ones with the highest potential to produce \u201cgigable\u201d jobs in the future \u2014 Construction, Manufacturing, Retail, and Transportation and Logistics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NITI<\/strong><strong> Aayog&#8217;s recommendations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Undertake a <strong>separate enumeration exercise<\/strong> to estimate the size of the gig economy, and identify the characteristic features of gig workers.<\/li>\n<li>Extend <strong>social security measures<\/strong> to gig workers and their families, including sick leave, insurance, and pension.<\/li>\n<li>Accelerate <strong>access to finance<\/strong> through products specifically designed for platform workers, linking self-employed individual engaged in the business of selling regional and rural cuisine etc., with platforms to enable them to sell their produce to wider markets in towns and cities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bridging skill gaps<\/strong> by carrying out periodic assessments and partnering with platform businesses for onboarding skilled women and persons with disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Referring specifically to mobility players and delivery giants, NITI Aayog said that the startups should offer accident insurance to their gig workers in collaboration with the private sector or the government.<\/li>\n<li>The report puts forth suggestions for platform-led <strong>transformational and outcome-based skilling.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Referring to Indonesia\u2019s example, the think tank also called on the companies to offer <strong>occupational disease and work accident insurance<\/strong> for employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Embracing the gig economy means we can outsource tasks and jobs, as we need them. It gives us greater freedom, flexibility and brings in new skills and ideas. NITI Aayog\u2019s recommendations are the much-needed reforms for the betterment of gig and platform workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: Contextual introduction. Body: Write some points related to NITI Aayog&#8217;s recommendations for the betterment of gig and platform workers. Conclusion: Write a way forward. A gig worker is a person who engages in income-earning activities outside of a traditional employer-employee relationship, as well as in the informal sector. When gig workers use platforms i.e.,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-enumerate-niti-aayogs-recommendations-for-the-betterment-of-gig-and-platform-workers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Answered] Enumerate NITI Aayog&#8217;s recommendations for the betterment of gig and platform workers.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193465","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}