India, Jan. 2 -- Deepinder Goyal, founder of food delivery portal Zomato, pushed back against the calls for better pay-outs and improved working conditions for gig workers, saying that the 10-minute delivery promise, provided by his quick-commerce company Blinkit is not enabled by asking delivery partners to drive fast.

A section of gig workers have been demanding better pay-outs and working conditions and held a massive strike on December 31, New Year's Eve.

Amid rising concerns over 10-minute delivery promise, which some say exposes a delivery person to tough conditions, Deepinder Goyal took to X on Thursday shared that Zomato and Blinkit delivered at a record pace on New Year's Eve, "unaffected by calls for strikes that many of us he...