January 28, 2025
Spread the love Sidh Kavedia Katelyn Patta Samay Gupta Aditi Inamdar Siddharth Chandak
IAS, former Secretary, Government of India
India’s information technology (IT) capital has been in the newspapers for the wrong reasons. Shortages of drinking water dominated the headlines, and there are signs of labour unrest in the IT/IT-enabled services (ITeS) sector. A new workers’ union called Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (KITU) has demanded that the state government do away with the longstanding exemption, given to IT/ITeS establishments, from the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946. Karnataka has nearly 2 million workers engaged in the IT/ITeS sector, and it seems that about 10,000 are members of KITU.