Today is the second phase of national lockdown PM Narendra Modi government issued fresh guidelines allowing all IT, IT-enabled services (ITeS) and e-commerce companies to function from April 20. While the IT sector has been asked to work with upto 50 per cent strength there is no such cap for e-commerce companies. Vehicles used by e-commerce operators are also allowed to run after getting the necessary permissions.
‘Digital economy is critical to the services sector and is important for national growth. Accordingly, e-commerce operations, operations of IT and IT enabled services, data and call centres for government activities, and online teaching and distance learning are all permitted activities now,’ the revised guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) read.
Information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) companies have asked most employees to work from home with very few staff being present at locations to handle critical workloads.IT and ITeS industry body Nasscom said BPM, GCC and parts of IT industry are operating at maximum 70 per cent capacity utilisation in wake of the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus infection in the country. To cut down on salary costs, it has demanded that IT companies should be allowed to pay bench employees only minimum wages along with statutorily entitlements.
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