By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, Nov 5: A division Bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar of the AP HC on Monday admitted a PIL challenging the inaction of the state government in monitoring its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Policy 2010-2015.
Sanjay Chary and B. Ravichandra, residents of the city, filed the PIL urging the court to declare the government’s inaction as illegal.
The state government had announced the first ICT policy in May 1999 followed by the second policy in June 2002, third policy in March 2005 and fourth policy in 2010 for promoting the growth of the Information Technology sector, generation of employment, augmenting the Gross State Domestic Product and for overall socioeconomic development.
The petitioners said that while the government had extended several benefits and concessions through the ICT policies to the IT companies, it had failed to protect the unemployed youth against unceremonious removal by IT companies who compelled them to submit resignations while availing the benefits extended by the government in its ICT Policy.
The petitioners urged the court to direct the government to create a monitoring cell for supervising the ICT Policy with specific directions to receive complaints from the victims of IT companies and check their high-handed action.
While admitting the PIL, the Bench directed the state government to file a counter affidavit to the allegations in the PIL.
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