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But who are these gig workers? Are they the students working part-time to get some additional income, as the Blinkit puts it in their social media post, or those who come from the marginalised section and striving to get livelihood through these jobs? All of the workers Outlook spoke to belong to very poor economic background and most of them joined as gig-worker after facing huge loss during Covid-induced lockdown.