Edited excerpts:In Focus Podcast | Is the 10-minute delivery model necessary? Prashant Kamal: The debate around the gig workers’ plight is not just about 10-minute delivery. A few powerful people are deliberately trying to make it a binary between consumers’ comfort and gig workers’ misery. So, from a delivery platform’s point of view, creating a crore of a jobs requires at least five years. So, I don’t think the current model of this gig platforms that are employing gig workers will get disrupted in the short term.

Source: The Hindu January 09, 2026 13:53 UTC