The Political Economy of Gig Pensions
Since 1991, the limited gains attained by working people in terms of social security, including pensions, have been whittled down by the joint actions of the Indian government and big business. Even government employees and teachers have been forcibly transitioned to the defined contribution-based National Pension System (NPS), where both the employee and the government make monthly contributions toward a retirement corpus whose terminal value is market-linked, from the defined benefit Old Pension Scheme (OPS). A small number of private...
