“From delivery to home assistance”: The startup founder warns Gig economy to besiege India

Tej Pandya, founder of Groweasy.ai, has raised concerns about the direction of demographic profits in India, and wondering whether the country really creates opportunities to suit the aspirations of the small workforce.

Pandia participated in an incident from his own experience, which necessitated an invitation to the home through a service platform. The 26 -year -old worker was getting $ 36,000 a month, once working in delivering food before being pulled into a fixed salary. “There is no defect in washing, sweeping, and disinfection utensils. But I can feel it, the loss of calm pride, and low confidence. This is not India that we dreamed of,” Bandia wrote.

He pointed out that although the investment capital was once feeding on the appearance of food delivery platforms, the similar financing is now the services that employ the youth of India in homework for the upper middle class in urban areas. “We call it the concert’s economy. We call it flexibility. But the truth? It is a trap disguised as an opportunity,” said in the LinkedIn post, thinking.

Pandia asked about the sustainability of growth in India, with highlighting that the country’s unemployment in the country is more than 17 %, while real wages remained stagnant for more than a decade. “A state cannot grow if its young people are stuck in service, instead of building,” adding that policy makers and businessmen alike should ask whether India creates “jobs worth doing, or just jobs that keep people busy.”

Soon the viral post went, as a flood of reactions from Internet users, many of whom were divided into their responses. Some have agreed to evaluate the dark Pandia, while others felt that he ignored the dignity of the work.

One of the users wrote: “Blame the country will not help. We must first learn to respect young officials who want to work and earn … Any job can learn it.”

Another indicated, “Not everyone can do everything. This is how life goes. If every farmer believes that his son will never do cultivation, how will we get food?

The third user of the argument of Bandia completely asked: “What is the error here? In a population of 1.5 billion, not everyone will be builders. The government must definitely empower young people with tools and skills, but I do not get what this post is trying to transfer.”

With the disclosure of the online debate, Pandya’s post confirmed a greater fact: India promised that the growth engine in the world becomes not only dependent on numbers, but on whether its young population finds work that nourishes innovation, pride and progress – beyond survival only.