A group named SaveTCSPlease drafted the letter to these leaders suggesting that the employees, nearly 2000 of them, including 1000 women be affected by the job loss.

The letter also mentions TCS imposing a forced transfer for 300-400 employees, in the guise of a retention plan to a newer facility in Indore.

TCS on its part, however, suggested that the closure will not result into job losses. On the contrary the company is relocating employees to other business units. Media reports suggested that employees could be relocated to a new TCS' facility in Indore.

Besides Indore, TCS is also building another facility in PM Narendra Modi's constituency of Varanasi.

But sadly, both Varanasi and Indore, although within the same state, are at quite a distance from Lucknow. While Varanasi is nearly 320 kilometers away from Lucknow, Indore is over 860 kilometers far.

An official TCS spokesperson was quoted as saying, "we are consolidating our UP operations. There have neither been any job losses nor have we asked anyone to quit."

The company' affirmation that there will not be job losses at the Lucknow facility is starkly similar to the message that most Indian majors such as TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies have shared during a closure.

The Indian tech industry is facing challenges owing to technology shifts towards cloud, increasing automation usurping jobs, and trade protectionism, such as the Trump effect, in various markets.

Restructuring and corporate strategy too has resulted in many such tech majors clipping employee-count on account of failing performance metrics.

Call this increasing automation eating into jobs or global trade concerns, Indian IT firms are definitely working under pressure to cut costs, maintain profitability amid uncertain times.