-Newslaundry.com They are battling job insecurity, variable pay, low base pay, increasing fuel prices, and inconsistency in incentive payments. The irony of Zomato’s website for its delivery workers is hard to ignore. “Ride with pride,” it says. As you scroll down, figures such as “1 lakh + happy partners” and “10 crore + happy deliveries” pop out. This at a time when “delivery partners” across India are far from happy. Over the last two...
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Why Dalit Capitalism Does Not Lead to Emancipation -Kushal Choudhary
-Newsclick.in It is easy to see why Dalit entrepreneurs get celebrated, but the market is not casteless, as the media projects. Chandra Bhan Prasad, a noted advocate of entrepreneurship as a way to emancipate Dalits, acknowledged in a recent interview that capitalism breeds inequality. Prasad and the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI), an organisation he supports and promotes, posit Dalit capitalism as an emancipatory tool. DICCI has steered Dalit-run...
More »Official data corroborates deepening of livelihood crisis in urban areas during the 2020 nationwide lockdown
The recently released quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data broadly confirms the dip in employment and jobs during the countrywide lockdown period, followed by a certain degree of recovery in the post-lockdown months last year as have been indicated by various survey-based studies and research papers. The quarterly bulletin on PLFS provides data on key employment and unemployment indicators i.e. Unemployment Rate (UR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR) and Labour...
More »Food delivery workers tell their story on Twitter, say it's a losing game
-TheNewsMinute.com The delivery executives behind the anonymous Twitter handle tell TNM that they deliver more food, travel more but earn less than ever before. Throughout the pandemic, even as restaurants were shuttered to diners and grocery stores closed early, food delivery executives have remained a constant, traversing cities at all hours of the day to bring meals to your doorstep. Yet, during this time, many of these executives have stood in protest...
More »Only 15% Indians know about Pegasus. But once aware, their distrust of Modi govt grows -Rakesh Jain
-ThePrint.in Prashnam's 12-state survey shows a general lack of awareness. But among those who know what Pegasus is, a greater percentage say Modi government snoops on ordinary citizens. The Pegasus scandal has rocked India’s Parliament. The issue of Israeli spyware allegedly used for snooping on thousands of private citizens has been making headlines for the past two weeks across the world and in some sections of the Indian media. Reports continue to...
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