The Karnataka authorities on Tuesday urged IT companies to increase the work from home alternative for personnel to December 2022 retaining in view of visitors congestion on Outer Ring Road because of the Bengaluru metro construction work.
In its letter to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), the Department of Electronics, Information Technology said, "BMRCL is starting metro production works on Outer Ring Road (ORR) from Central Silk Board to KR Puram and the construction of the equal may want to amplify to about 1.Five to 2 years. The ORR houses many massive Tech Parks and IT Company campuses and incorporates big amount of traffic at some stage in the day. The ORR regardless of having six lanes and provider roads is infamous for its perennial traffic congestion."
The Karnataka government emphasized that inside the COVID pandemic situation, with IT groups running from domestic (WFH) furnished a few relief to traffic motion on ORR. However, with the begin of metro construction on ORR, it would be extraordinarily hard to control visitors movement on ORR, in particular if the IT companies resume paintings from the workplace.
The state government stated it has taken some measures by means of implementing Bus Priority Lanes (BPL) and secure cycle lanes to offer alternate options for the mobility of human beings operating or passing thru ORR.
"In addition to those measures to sell mass transit and biking as an alternateoptions to travel on ORR, it would be greatly beneficial if the IT organizations particularly located in ORR, could extend the make money working from home choice for most of the employees till December 2022, and/or the IT parks/organizations can be advised to stagger the operating hours for those personnel running physically on the workplace. The IT workforce, who want to bodily attend office, are recommended to take buses (BM'l'C/Company) as those buses travel on BUS lanes," the kingdom authorities said.
"We request you to circulate this advisory to IT groups placed on ORR so that infrastructure improvement sports are accomplished easily, which would additionally ease out visitors congestion in future," it urged.
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