Nagpur: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday told the legislative council that Tata Consultancy Services has laid off 376 employees over two quarters of the current fiscal from their Pune city campuses, an assertion coming amid reports of large-scale retrenchments at the IT major.

Labour Minister Aakash Fundkar gave the data in the upper house citing information received from TCS after members pointed to media reports about massive layoffs at the company.

MLCs Uma Khapre, Pravin Darekar, Prasad Lad and others, speaking in Question Hour, raised concerns over hundreds of employees in the IT sector being laid off due to the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

They asked whether it is true that about 30,000 employees of TCS have been retrenched in Pimpri Chinchwad, Pune, Mumbai, N

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