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SC/ST body to fast for pvt job quota
Sun, Dec 13 04:36 AM
Taking a cue from Telangana and Gorkhaland activists, leaders of the
All India Confederation of Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes
Organisations on Saturday declared a fast-unto-death from December 15
to press for job reservation in the private sector and other demands.
Chairman of the confederation Udit Raj charged the government of being
apathetic towards the demands of SCs and STs, and said he and other
members of the organisation would fast-unto-death from December 15.
He said that marginalisation of people in the lower strata of society
was the primary reason behind the demand for separate states and urged
the government to address their problems.
Raj said there were several competent SC/ST candidates, but they were
unemployed as private sectors did not have reservation for them.
"The private sector employs very few persons from the SC/ST category
especially in positions of power. Therefore, the government should
intervene to address the inequality," he said. He also charged the UPA
government of ignoring the issue despite the fact that reservation was
part of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of UPA 1.
Apart from reservation in private sector, the confederation also
demanded enactment of the Reservation Act, abolition of contract
labour system in government services, caste certificates issued by one
state to be made valid in all states and reservation in higher
judiciary and the Armed Forces.
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