Shaken by the political unrest brewing in Bahrain, Indian IT majors Infosys, TCS and Wipro have started recalling their employees from the gulf country.
IT bellwhether Infosys has recalled all its employees from the nation. Infosys has less than twenty employees in Bahrain, the small island country located near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. The move comes in view of Bahrain's government declaring a three-month state of emergency on March 15 after troops from Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf states arrived to support the kingdom's Sunni monarch in suppressing pro-democracy demonstrations.
A spokesperson of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest software services provider, on Monday said the company has recalled twenty people, including all its employees and their dependents in Bahrain, back to India.
Wipro, which has fifty employees in Bahrain, has recalled twenty five employees working in the sensitive areas. "The welfare and well being of Indians in these countries (Bahrain, Yemen) is uppermost in our agenda. We are closely monitoring developments in these countries," external affairs minister S M Krishna said on Monday.
Bahrain has nearly 3,50,000 Indians, making them the single largest expatriate community in the tiny Gulf country. The Indian authorities have already asked Indians in Bahrain to keep a low profile, stay indoors and to avoid all non-essential travel within the country.
Many Indian companies in Bahrain have been trying to get their employees and families out from there over the past three days. The shia community has led the protests alleging discrimination, lack of rights and seeking political reforms like restricting the country's monarchy to a constitutional role only.
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