India, Dec. 5 -- AAP MP Raghav Chadha, speaking in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, sought regulations on quick-commerce and other such app-based delivery and service businesses, stressing particularly on benefits for gig workers. Their lives are worse than those of daily wagers and factor workers, the MP said in the ongoing winter session of Parliament.

"Every day, we press a button on our mobile phone app and a notification arrives: 'Your order is on its way'. But behind this notification, there is often a person whom we do not acknowledge," he said, listing "delivery boys of Zomato and Swiggy, the drivers of Ola and Uber, the riders of Blinkit and Zepto, and other people like the plumbers and beauticians of Urban Company" as examples.

"In ...