The Labour Commissioner’s office in Assam has filed a case against information technology major Wipro for executing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise without obtaining a contract labour licence. Wipro allegedly violated the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act of 1970 while handling the digital part of the project through a Guwahati-based firm. The case was filed at the court of the chief judicial magistrate. The firm was found not to have obtained the mandatory contract labour license for the NRC project,” Labour Commissioner Narayan Konwar told The Hindu. The NRC authority had in 2014 invited tenders twice for system integration of the NRC project.

Source: The Hindu September 30, 2019 00:15 UTC