With a growing stack of reports of mass lay-offs in tech companies, representatives of employees working in India's Silicon Valley met with Karnataka's IT Minister, Priyank Kharge, to discuss their concerns. "Cognizant is planning to lay off 10, 000. So is Tech Mahindra. We are basing it on reports we are getting," said Rajesh Nararaj, who led the group called Forum for IT that met with the minister on Monday.