IT and BPO firms to get work from home exemption for staff till July 31: Ravi Shankar Prasad

NEW DELHI: IT and BPO firms will get the work from home exemption for staff till July 31, Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday.

The option was only permitted till April end earlier.

The Department of Telecommunication had earlier extended the exemption by one month, but Prasad said the relaxations will be applicable till July 31.

This was a key demand by IT industry lobby group Nasscom, which had argued that it needed policy stability instead of a month-by-month extension.

Prasad, speaking after a virtual meeting with state IT ministers, also said India needed to capitalise on a huge electronics manufacturing opportunity that has been thrown open, as companies look to move of China in the wake of the Covid-19 virus outbreak.