The Ashray centre at Kondapur has opened as a dedicated break facility for gig and delivery workers, with Cyberabad Municipal Corporation commissioner G. Srijana inaugurating the centre in a partnership involving the Telangana government and Amazon India.
The centre is intended to provide gig workers with an accessible place to pause during working hours. It is open to delivery and gig workers across platforms, regardless of the company or service they work for, according to a report by Deccan Chronicle.
The initiative is being taken up under the guidance of special chief secretary Jayesh Ranjan. Its stated purpose is to create facilities at locations where workers can conveniently take a break while carrying out their duties across the city.
The Kondapur facility places a public amenity within one of Hyderabad’s major employment and commercial districts. Gig and delivery workers regularly move between homes, offices, retail destinations and service locations, but the report does not provide details about the centre’s size, operating hours, amenities, staffing or capacity.
The centre’s cross-platform access is a notable feature of the initiative. Workers are not required to be associated with Amazon India or any particular delivery company to use the facility. This distinguishes the centre from an employer-specific workplace amenity and positions it as a shared space for workers operating across the platform economy.
The arrangement also illustrates the role that municipal agencies and private companies can play in creating facilities for a workforce whose work is largely carried out in public spaces. The report identifies the state government and Amazon India as partners in establishing the Kondapur centre, while the inauguration was conducted by the CMC commissioner.
For Cyberabad’s gig workers, the immediate change is the availability of a designated place to take a break during working hours. The report does not specify whether similar centres are already operating elsewhere, how many additional facilities are planned, or how usage will be monitored.
The Kondapur centre is part of a broader initiative to establish accessible spaces for gig workers at convenient locations. Further information on the programme’s expansion, operating framework and next locations was not provided in the report.
