Punia wants 15 pc pvt jobs for Dalits
D K Singh Posted online: Sat Oct 16 2010, 11:55 hrs
New Delhi : Barely a month after industry bodies said they can not
reserve jobs for SCs and STs, P L Punia, who took over as Chairman of
the National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Friday, demanded 15
percent reservation for SCs in private sector.
"There is nothing called private sector in this country. Except 10-15
per cent of them, all private entrepreneurs take loans from public
sector banks and financial institutions, which contribute to their
equity," Punia said. "Private sector will, therefore, have to do
something for the disadvantaged sections."
And if they don't fall in line, Punia warned, he will press for a
legislation. "Private sector will have to be convinced to give 15 per
cent reservation to Dalits or a legislation has to be brought to
implement it," he said, adding that he "will do everything necessary",
including taking up the issue with ministers and the prime minister,
to ensure reservation in private sector.
The comments assume significance as Punia is being built up by the
Congress as its Dalit face to take on his bete' noir, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Mayawati, whom he once served as principal
secretary.Mayawati,incidentally, has been writing to the Centre for
private sector reservation.
The comments, however, could also put in a fix the UPA government,
which favours reservation through affirmative action on part of
industries without making it mandatory through legislation.
The Commerce and Industry Ministry had some time ago written to
industry chambers — CII, FICCI and Assocham — suggesting that
companies benefiting from government incentives reserve about 5 per
cent jobs for SCs/STs. However, last month, representatives of the
industry chambers met Principal Secretary to the PM, T K A Nair, and
conveyed their inability to implement the same.
Punia though is not amused. "Giving reservation to Dalits is not an
economic agenda,it is a social agenda. Through reservation they will
get jobs in the private sector and it will bring them honour, dignity
and respectability. Even in a country like America, reservation is
given to blacks in the name of affirmative action... It must be done
at any cost in India also," he said.
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