Govt gets started to make work from home process smooth

                       The telecom ministry and ministry of electronics and information technology  are working on the first aspect, the department of personnel and training could work on the second.       

Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked telecom and IT ministries to talk to industry to identify roadblocks and discuss possible solutions.

Telecom and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked telecom and IT ministries to talk to industry to identify roadblocks and discuss possible solutions. The government will encourage industry to design products, and then make policies around them, the official said.

The central government has ordered 50 percent of its employees to work from home amidst the growing corona virus pandemic. The remaining employees will have to attend office every day. The center will also establish different time slots for work hours of employees attending office.

                                                

NEW DELHI-Expect efficient software and hardware solutions for ‘work from home’ and a set of parameters defining the practice. The Center recognising that WFH is here to stay, has started industry-wide discussions to make the process easier, more rigorously defined and more secure.

A senior government official who spoke off the record told ET: “There are two aspects to WFH. One, how to use technology to allow seamless experience... essentially an array of products... software suits and hardware that don’t compromise data security, and second, defining basic parameters of working from home.”

MeitY has called for a meeting of major software and hardware companies and industry bodies on Monday. Internet and Mobile Association of India and Nasscom are among the invitees for the meeting which will be chaired by MeitY secretary Ajay Sawhney along with telecom secretary .