Covid-19 curfews: Nasscom says laptops and chargers are 'essential'

In its letter to the MIDC, Nasscom has stressed the need for a clarification while stating that e-commerce companies must be allowed to deliver all goods and services

Even as the e-commerce industry has urged the government to allow it to deliver both essential and non-essential goods and services during the Covid-19 curfews, industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has communicated to various central and state departments that items like laptops, mobile phones and chargers are critical for work from home (WFH).  

Nasscom has written to the CEO, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), the secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and the secretary, ministry of home affairs, requesting that e-commerce firms be permitted to deliver all goods and services and not