“The pilot project of passport e-governance project will be rolled out by March from a few centres and the full-fledged roll-out would be by the year end,” TCS vice-president and head (government industry solutions) Tanmoy Chakrabarty said.
Under the pilot project, a total of six “passport filing centres” will be set up in Ambala, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Hubli, Mangalore and Bangalore. Chakrabarty said the firm is eyeing a revenue of Rs1,000 crore from the project in the next seven years. The revenue is based on a charge per passport basis.
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Sexual harassment case: KPMG officials get relief
New Delhi: Four top executives of KPMG India Pvt. Ltd got a major relief from the Supreme Court, which refused to interfere with an order of the Bombay high court and quashed an FIR against them in a sexual harassment case.
The apex court also allayed the apprehension of the woman employee that the observations made by the high court may affect other legal proceedings initiated by her.
“We find no reason for such an apprehension...,” a two-judge bench said in a recent order.
The four executives who got the relief are chief operating officer Richard Rekhy, chief executive officer Russel Parera, HR manager Niloufer Irani and former HR director Sumeet Mathur.
They were accused of not taking action upon her complaint of sexual harassment as per the guidelines of the apex court. She had made allegations of sexual harassment against three of her other senior colleagues—Vikram Uttamsingh, Abizer Diwanji and Anees Maloo.
On 6 August, the high court had concluded that the complaint did not reveal commission of cognizable offence by the officers.
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Sun Pharma’s US arm to reply to USFDA today
Mumbai: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd’s US arm, Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd, will file a response to the US Food and Drug Administration’s (USFDA) warning on its quality standards on Monday.
Two weeks ago, USFDA had issued a warning to the firm that its quality and processes were not up to specifications.
The company, however, maintained that the warning was not with regard to product quality, but on the systems and processes in the facility.
“The USFDA letter to Caraco was referring to some quality concerns on the systems and processes of the company and not about product quality,” a Sun spokesperson said here.
USFDA had asked Caraco to reply in 15 days.
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Mayawati seeks to woo voters ahead of polls
New Delhi: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday tried to woo voters in Delhi, promising development of all sections and full statehood.
Addressing an election rally in the Capital’s Trilokpuri constituency, Mayawati accused the successive governments of ignoring welfare of the Dalits and the poor and said as in Uttar Pradesh, her party will ensure welfare of each section of society in the city.
“If we come to power in Delhi and at the Centre, we will give full statehood to Delhi,” she said at the rally attended by at least 15,000 people.