Overview

• Telangana Assembly on June 30 presented the Gig and Platform Workers Bill, 2025 to secure social security for about 4.2 lakh gig workers.
• The draft mandates aggregators to register gig workers with a welfare board and assign each worker a unique identification number.
• It proposes a tripartite board composed of government officials, worker representatives and platform operators to oversee welfare schemes.
• Platforms would contribute 1–2% of each payout into a dedicated social security fund and face fines or imprisonment for non-payment.
• Telangana becomes the third state after Rajasthan and Karnataka to enact gig worker protections under the Congress Party’s ‘Shramik Nyay’ agenda.