Chapter I PRELIMINARY

(1 ) This Act may be called theTelangana Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration, Social Security and Welfare) Act, 2026.

1. (2) it extends to the whole of the State of Telangana.
2. (3) it shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Telangana Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provISIon ;
3. (4) it applies to:- a) Aggregators, platforms operating in the State of Telangana or those operating in any other States across India or overseas rendering one or more services in Telangana State as specified in Schedule-1; b) Every Platform Based Gig Worker registered with the Board under section 10.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

1. (a) “aggregator" means a digital intermediary or a market place for a buyer or user of a service to connect with the seller or the service provider, and includes any entity that coo'rdinates with one or more aggregators for providing the services;
2. (b) “Appellate Authority” means the authority as may be notified by the Government under section 23;
3. (c) “Automated monitoring and decIsion-makIng systems” means systems which make decisions by automated means, either wholly or partially with or without human intervention maintained by the aggregator;
4. (d) “Board” means the Telangana Platform Based Gig Workers Social Security and Welfare Board constituted under section 3;
5. (e) “Company” means a company as defined in clause

1. (20) of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013;
   • (f) “Fund” means the Telangana Platform Based Gig Workers Social Security and Welfare Fund established under sub-section (1 ) of section 19;
   • (g) “Gig worker" means a person who performs work or participates in a work arrangement that results in a given rate of payment, based on terms and conditions laid down in such contract and includes all piece-rate work, and whose work is sourced through a platform, in the services specified in the Schedule;
   • (h) “Government” means the Government of Telangana;
     • (i) “GrIevance Redressal Officer” means the authority notified by the Government under sub-section (1 ) of section 22;
   • (j) “Notification” means a notification published in the Telangana Gazette and the word “notified” shall be construed accordingly;
   • (k) “Payout” means any net payments made by the aggregator/platform to the gig worker for any work performed or service rendered through a platform;
   • (l) “Platform” means any arrangement providing a service through electronic means, at the request of a recipient of the service, involving the organization of work performed by individuals at a certain location in return for payment, and involving the use of automated monitoring and decision-making systems or human decision making that relies on data;
   • (m) “Platform Work” means a work arrangement made outside traditional employer and employee relationship in which organisations or individuals use an online platform to access other organisations or individuals to solve specific problems or to provide specific services or any such other activities which may be notified by the State Government, in exchange for payment;
   • (n) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
   • (o) “regulations” means the regulations made by the Board under this Act;
   • (p) “rules” means the rules made under this Act;
   • (q) “Schedule” means Schedules appended to the Act;
   • (r) “Termination” means materially restricting the Platform Based Gig Worker to have access to the platform, including blocking, deactivating or suspending access to his account or making him ineligible to provide services on or through the platform irrespective of the period of such restriction ; “Unique ID” means the Unique Identification Number assigned to the platform-based Gig worker registered by the Board under sub-section
2. (4) of section 10;
   • (t) “Welfare Fund Fee” means the fee levied under sub-section
3. (1) of section 20;
   • (u) All other words and expressions used herein but not defined, shall have the same meanings as assigned to them in the Telangana General Clauses Act, 1891 or other relevant Acts.