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Travel solutions provider offers uncapped leave, attractive stock options and sops for buying e-vehicles.

- ASHUTOSH KUMAR

THE NASDAQ-LISTED MakeMyTrip, an online travel solutions provider, helps clients make happy memories. It also extends this to its women employees who have to travel for work—among its several initiatives is travel allowance for children of women employees.

“MakeMyTrip has a lot of young mothers. We have introduced this policy to ensure that they can work and take care of the child during business travel. If the child is up to five years, one can travel with the child. The payment covers (expenses for) domestic help too. We introduced this two years back,” says Yuvaraj Srivastava, group chief human resource officer, MakeMyTrip.

After all, it is on the strength of its employees that the company, founded in 2000 with the idea of instant travel bookings in India-U.S. segment, has been able to metamorphose into a comprehensive travel solutions provider with top brands such as goibibo and redBus, apart from a network of 34,000 registered travel agents. Gross bookings doubled to $3.18 billion in FY21 compared with $1.63 billion in FY22. The company credits the post-pandemic rebound in growth to spirit of employees, who are considered as ambassadors of the organisation.