IT and ITeS providers can work at 50 per cent strength from April 20, according to the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Majority of the IT companies had asked their employees to work from home during the lockdown.
“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 Government said.