DoT gives nod to allow BPM employees to work from home until April 30

The number of employees impacted by the provision is as high as 1.8-2 million

The software services body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) got a long awaited nod from the Department of Telecommunications to allow work from home for employees of business process management (BPM) firms until April 30.

On Friday, the DoT said, “The requirement of authorised Service Providers provisioned secures VPN is exempted. During this period, the OSPs (other service providers) are permitted to use Secured VPN  configured using “Static IP” address by themselves for interconnection between home agent position and OSP Centre with pre-defined locations.” 

The issue dates back to a clause in the earlier telecom policy under