The Department of Telecom (DoT) has extended the exemption given to the IT & ITeS industry to work from home till Dec 2020. The exemption was going to expire at the end of July.
"In view of the ongoing concerns due to Covid-19, the department has decided to further extend these relaxations upto December 31, 2020..."
The industry has cheered the move.
Rishad Premji, chairman of Wipro tweeted. "Thank you to the government for their tremendous support on the new ways of working from day 1. This has helped tremendously in further elevating our standing & responsiveness globally".
India’s IT industry has been asking the Govt to make permanent the relaxations to allow employees to work from home so that companies are able to optimise their existing real estate & quickly adopt a blended model of remote working & from the office.
Debjani Ghosh, president of Nasscom, tweeted, "Thank u @rsprasad n Secretary @DoT_India for your strong support for Indian IT. This will ensure business continuity n employee safety.. n also increase our talent pool to tier 2 n 3 cities".
Since March, India’s IT industry has moved over 90 per cent of its 4.3 million workforce to work remotely due to the Coronavirus imposed lockdown.
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