IT hardware body red-flags Aarogya Setu order

New Delhi | Bengaluru: The onus to ensure that all private sector employees install the central’s government’s health app Aarogya Setu on their mobile phones cannot lie with the head of a company, according to MAIT, the country’s hardware manufacturing body.

“Dereliction by an individual employee should not be a sword hanging over management,” MAIT’s chief executive officer George Paul told ET.

The nodal industry grouping, which counts as its members global technology majors Cisco, Dell, Intel and Canon among others, will write to the government seeking a withdrawal of this punitive measure announced in the guidelines released by the ministry of home affairs while announcing the extension of the lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19.