Quota in private sector: Tax waiver for India Inc coming?
Mayur Shekhar Jha, July 14, 2010 (New Delhi)
The pressure is building up on corporate India to hire from the weaker sections.
After NDTV Profit broke the story on Tuesday that the government is
fed up of the lack of affirmative action in the private sector and is
setting up an interministerial committee, the labour ministry now says
that it wants incentives for corporates that will invest in training
the underprivileged.
"We have asked finance ministry to give some kind of tax waiver to
corporate investing in skill development," Minister of State for
Labour and Employment Harish Rawat said.
The Ministry of Corporate affairs too had tough words for corporate India.
"Corporates are not doing enough though we have come some distance. We
are trying to build a model of training and development," said
Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Salman Khurshid.
But corporates like Infosys which says they have invested in skill
building on their part say the state governments simply are not
interested in any cooperation.
"The strategy for inclusiveness should be different from thrusting it
down people's throats, passing a law and not doing anything, because
we know for the last 60 years it has failed. The government has
created entitlement culture, not empowerment," said Mohandas Pai,
chief of human resources at Infosys.
But the government says if the corporate don't act they may have to intervene.
"We only asked them to do what they have themselves suggested. We are
now left with no option but to look for other ways of ensuring that
affirmative action is properly implemented," said Dipp secretary RP
Singh.
At a time when the government and private companies are playing a
blame game, the only reality is that neither skill development
programs has seen great progress nor has much been done on the issue
of affirmative action.
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