The Hindu Business Line : Private sector offers job reservation

At a meeting of the representatives of industry chambers CII and Assocham, and the Tata Sons Director, Dr J.J. Irani, with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Wednesday, it was assured that members of the two chambers will provide reservation through a mandatory code of conduct to the economically and socially weaker SCs and STs, according to an industry source.

Following the assurance, the Prime Minister is understood to have indicated that there would now be no legislation for providing the reservation.

The reservation would be for all levels of employees from the entry level right up to the managerial level.

The chambers will develop a code of conduct for their members for providing the reservation. The code will be developed over the next two months.

A task force was set up under the chairmanship of Dr Irani to look into affirmative action by the industry on the issue. The joint CII-Assocham report will be released by Dr Irani on Friday at the CII National Council Meeting in Chennai.

Meanwhile, industry chamber FICCI has suggested a few methods for economic and social improvement of the SCs and STs. The chamber notes that the dropout rates in these classes of people is quite high in secondary and higher education. The chamber has suggested that the Government "arrest the dropout rates through design and implementation of innovative incentive schemes".

The chamber has also suggested entrepreneurship and self-employment promotion by the Government among the weaker sections through easy access to capital, technology and market distribution channels. Instead of price preference to the public sector undertakings, preferential terms can be extended to SCs and STs for promotion of entrepreneurship, said the chamber.

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