Indian IT industry employee rights policy - a time to review?

The Indian IT industry had tremendous growth during past few decades, especially in the areas  software and services sector. The IT and BPO sector employs around 5 million employees concentrated mainly in major cities like Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Trivandrum, Hyderabad, Cochin etc.. IT Companies have totally neglected employee rights in each and every manner, which was partly a government policy to keep the industry growth in steady path. Now after all these years of success and an unsurpassed growth the companies nor the government have shown any interest in improving the employee rights. The trade unions usually go mum on employee issues and most companies have banned trade unions in their respective campuses.

Having achieved all the growth at the expense of employee rights companies are not willing to improve. As they always have higher targets to achieve which would not be possible without current IT employee policies.

At this time of parliament election I would request political parties and trade unions to create a better and uniform IT employee policy. As It is already proved that IT employees are here to stay, looking into their issues and creating better policies for working environment may result in new voting patterns favouring political parties who are interested in IT employees welfare. More over a favourable employee policy will eventually result in more productive companies in long run. The nasscom and CII which have ditched IT employees in favour of growth and profit should now come together for improving employee rights record forming better guidelines for IT industry for employee recruitment and  management.

So I Would request the political parties that comes into power to look into issues faced by IT employees and put forward better laws and guidelines for IT industry. Because IT employees deserves better treatment from employers and government.