Hyderabad’s Cyberabad Municipal Corporation (CMC) has opened an Ashray centre at Kondapur to provide gig and delivery workers with a place to take a break during their working hours, in an initiative carried out with the state government and Amazon India.
CMC commissioner G. Srijana inaugurated the centre, which is open to gig and delivery workers across all platforms. Access is not limited to workers associated with Amazon or any other specific company, according to the report.
The centre is part of an initiative being taken up under the guidance of special chief secretary Jayesh Ranjan to create accessible spaces for gig workers at locations where they can conveniently pause during their working day. Kondapur was selected for a facility intended to serve workers operating in one of Hyderabad’s major employment and technology districts.
Gig and delivery workers spend substantial portions of their working hours moving between pickup points, shops, offices, residential communities and customers. The Ashray centre is designed to provide a designated space for them to take a break while continuing their work across different platforms. The report did not provide details about the centre’s facilities, capacity, operating hours or eligibility documentation.
The decision to make the Kondapur centre available to workers across platforms gives the facility a wider intended user base than a company-specific workplace amenity. Workers associated with different delivery and gig platforms can use the space irrespective of the company or platform they work for, according to the report.
The partnership brings together the municipal corporation, the state government and Amazon India in establishing the centre. It also places the facility within a broader government-led effort to create accessible spaces for gig workers rather than treating rest infrastructure as an arrangement available only through individual companies.
The opening comes as gig and delivery workers form a visible part of daily urban activity, including the movement of food, parcels and other goods across Hyderabad. Their work depends on access to streets and commercial and residential areas, while the report identifies the lack of convenient break spaces as the problem the initiative is intended to address.
The report did not state whether similar Ashray centres are already operating elsewhere in the city or specify plans for additional locations. Further details about the centre’s operations, maintenance responsibilities and monitoring arrangements were not available in the supplied announcement.
