The heat of the general strike touched the IT industry too, though partially, with agitators resorting to blockade of all the roads leading to Hitec City on Monday morning.
The students’ JAC and other pro-Telangana activists reached the IT hub obstructing the movement of software professional and creating heavy traffic jams for a couple of hours.
The two-hour blockade, which saw activists requesting the IT professional to participate in the Sakala Janula Samme (strike by all sections of people), eased after the police arrived.
“The agitation did not have any impact on our business as all our associates came to office on time,” said an official of consulting and IT outsourcing company Mahindra Satyam.
It was business as usual too for Four Soft Limited, a city-based provider of software solutions for transportation and logistics industry, which is located in Cyber Towers, the standard landmark of Hitec City.
“Last year, the state government had assured the IT industry of all support in terms of providing security and ensuring business continuity. That support still continues and our business has not been affected so far. However, we hope that this (bandhs and strikes) is something that needs to be contained properly,” said Rajsekhar Roy, chief executive of Four Soft Limited.
According to Suman Reddy, managing director of Pegasystems Worldwide (India), a provider of business process management and customer relationship management solutions, work has not been affected much as the company provides transport facility to its 300-odd employees.
“We do not have any issue with the employee attendance or business continuity because we always provide transport to employees who opt for it. At times of such activities and when the city is sensitive in terms of protests, we tend to increase that coverage of transport to more number of employees,” Reddy said.
