Why One Minister in Narendra Modi Cabinet is Advocating Extension of Reservation to Private Sector Jobs
4 months ago

Why One Minister in Narendra Modi Cabinet is Advocating Extension of Reservation to Private Sector Jobs

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 25, 2024 18:01 IST - 3 MINS READ How do you view the demand for extending reservation to the private sector? Atal Bihari Vajpayee had spoken strongly in favour of implementing reservation for SC/STs in the private sector in the early 2000s. A claim made by those demanding reservation is that the privatisation of public sector companies has picked up speed under the National Democratic Alliance government. I am confident they will be on the same page as us on the need to take affirmative action in the private sector to ensure that the gains made through reservation for SC/STs are sustained.

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Reservation in Private Sector Jobs: An Idea Whose Time has Finally Come?
4 months ago

Reservation in Private Sector Jobs: An Idea Whose Time has Finally Come?

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 25, 2024 17:23 IST - 10 MINS READ In the run-up to the Maharashtra Assembly election on November 20, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi announced while addressing a press conference in Mumbai on November 18: “In the Lok Sabha, I said the Congress party and INDIA alliance will conduct caste census to ensure equitable participation. Nobody …

OPINION| Quota Within Quota: The Secret Weapon!
4 months, 2 weeks ago

OPINION| Quota Within Quota: The Secret Weapon!

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing his best to explain to voters of Jharkhand and Maharashtra the exact meaning of his slogan, “Ek Hain, Toh Safe Hain”. The issue came up before the Supreme Court recently, and the apex court in August ruled by a 6:1 majority judgement that sub-classification within the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes was permissible. In …

Karnataka cabinet defers discussion on job quota
8 months, 1 week ago

Karnataka cabinet defers discussion on job quota

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: The CM Siddaramaiah cabinet on Monday did not officially discuss the contentious Employment of Local Candidates Bill to ensure job reservation for Kannadigas in the private sector. Medical Education Minister Dr Sharan Prakash Patil briefed the cabinet on NEET, sources said. The cabinet discussed the issue of ED officials allegedly putting pressure on the former managing director of the …

Odisha: Congress demands more quota for SCs, STs in higher education
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Odisha: Congress demands more quota for SCs, STs in higher education

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR : Former Union minister Srikant Jena and ex-Congress MP Anant Prasad Sethi on Sunday said the government should revise the reservation quota for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in higher education in Odisha from 2024-25 academic year. In a letter to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, the Congress leaders said in 2015, the state government had announced that reservation …

PM: Attempt to tinker with quota for SC/STs
10 months ago

PM: Attempt to tinker with quota for SC/STs

New Indian Express  

LUCKNOW/VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the INDIA bloc parties are conniving to snatch the reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs guaranteed by the Constitution of India, by altering the provisions and making it religion-based to appease their vote bank. He addressed three back-to-back rallies in Mau, Mirzapur and Deoria to seek support for NDA candidates of …

Nitish Kumar-led Bihar govt raises quota for deprived castes to 65 per cent in state jobs, education
1 year, 4 months ago

Nitish Kumar-led Bihar govt raises quota for deprived castes to 65 per cent in state jobs, education

India TV News  

The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has formally increased the reservation quota for deprived castes from 50% to 65% in state government jobs and educational institutions. Governor Arlekar sent formal notifications for both bills—the Bihar Reservation of Vacancies in Posts and Services Amendment Bill and the Bihar Reservation Amendment Bill, 2023—to the state government, endorsing the proposed changes. The swift …

Ravi Shankar Prasad interview | ‘We must welcome the changing contours of reservation system’
2 years, 4 months ago

Ravi Shankar Prasad interview | ‘We must welcome the changing contours of reservation system’

The Hindu  

With the Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench judgment upholding the 10% reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections introduced by the Narendra Modi-led Central government, former Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has maintained that the judgment upholds the competency of Parliament to change the Constitution, the importance of not second-guessing legislative will, the validity of economic criteria for reservation and that the …

Andhra Pradesh: Bahujan Samaj Party proposes implementation of job quota in private companies
2 years, 7 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: Bahujan Samaj Party proposes implementation of job quota in private companies

The Hindu  

Bahujan Samaj Party leaders Somu Rambabu and Soru Sambayya on Thursday urged the Union Government to implement reservation in jobs for Scheduled Castes, Tribes and Backward Classes at private companies across the country in the backdrop of ‘large-scale privatisation of public sector units’. “The privatisation of PSUs is leading to denial of reservation to OBCs, SCs and STs,” the BSP …

Explained | Haryana’s private sector reservation law and the skepticism around it
3 years, 1 month ago

Explained | Haryana’s private sector reservation law and the skepticism around it

The Hindu  

The story so far: Setting aside an interim order passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on February 3 staying the State law that reserves 75% of private sector jobs paying up to 30,000 a month for Haryana’s local residents, the Supreme Court said on February 17 that the High Court had not provided “sufficient reasons” for putting the …

Reservations in All-India Quota of NEET: SC Has Shown the Way by Balancing Merit with Equity
3 years, 7 months ago

Reservations in All-India Quota of NEET: SC Has Shown the Way by Balancing Merit with Equity

News 18  

Last week, Narendra Modi-led NDA government declared 27 per cent reservation for OBCs and 10 per cent reservation for EWS students in the ‘All India Quota’ seats for admission to medical courses. Hence, the court declared that 30 per cent seats in undergraduate courses and 50 per cent seats in postgraduate courses in any state must be open to students …

Haryana to reserve 75% jobs in private sector for locals
4 years ago

Haryana to reserve 75% jobs in private sector for locals

Hindustan Times  

After sitting on it for close to four months, Haryana governor Satydeo Narain Arya on Tuesday gave assent to the bill providing 75% reservation in private sector to state job seekers who have a domicile certificate. The new law will provide quota to locals in private sector jobs that offer a salary of less than ₹ 50,000 a month, chief …

Haryana governor gives nod to Bill providing 75% quota to locals in private sector jobs
4 years ago

Haryana governor gives nod to Bill providing 75% quota to locals in private sector jobs

Firstpost  

Haryana governor Satyadeo Narain Arya has given assent to the Bill providing 75 percent reservation in the private sector to job seekers from the state, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Tuesday. “The Haryana Governor today gave his assent to the Bill entailing 75 percent reservation in the private sector to job seekers from the state. The Haryana State …

Parl Panel Suggestion on Reservation in Outsourced Govt Jobs Can Have Key Implications. Here's How
4 years, 6 months ago

Parl Panel Suggestion on Reservation in Outsourced Govt Jobs Can Have Key Implications. Here's How

News 18  

The Parliamentary Committee for Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled tribe has made an important recommendation for reservation in light of privatisation, outsourcing work and contractual employment in government jobs and public sector undertakings. It could put down the template for reservations while outsourcing jobs in government sectors, specially in Prasar Bharati, where many jobs are being increasingly outsourced. Increasingly …

HT Explainer: Haryana’s private sector job quota law and its fate
4 years, 7 months ago

HT Explainer: Haryana’s private sector job quota law and its fate

Hindustan Times  

The emotive private sector job quota issue in Haryana has become the centerpiece of a debate after an ordinance approved by the BJP-JJP cabinet was reserved for the consideration of the President by the Haryana governor. Haryana governor Satyadeo Narain Arya has referred the state cabinet’s decision to grant reservation to locals in private sector jobs to the President. What’s …

Reservation in promotions | Congress, LJP disagree with Supreme Court’s order
5 years, 1 month ago

Reservation in promotions | Congress, LJP disagree with Supreme Court’s order

The Hindu  

The Congress on Sunday said it disagreed with the Supreme Court’s decision on the issue of reservation in appointments and promotions, and alleged that the rights of SC/ST communities are under threat during the BJP rule. “The Congress party believes that the appointment of SC/ST people to government posts should not be at the discretion of governments, but it is …

Is there a problem with the 10% quota?
5 years, 11 months ago

Is there a problem with the 10% quota?

The Hindu  

In January, the Rajya Sabha passed the Constitution Amendment Bill guaranteeing 10% quota in education and employment to economically weaker sections in the general category. EBC students had already secured about three times the proposed quota of 10% without any reservation in top higher education institutions. In private educational institutions ranked by the NIRF, their share was as low as …

Quota in private educational institutes: Opposition from sector, threat of student protests may keep reservation at bay
6 years, 2 months ago

Quota in private educational institutes: Opposition from sector, threat of student protests may keep reservation at bay

Firstpost  

There are arguments both for and against reservations in jobs and educational institutes in the private sector, but currently, it appears that there are a number of hindrances that may keep the government’s pre-poll promise at bay. It’s the day anti-reservationists feared the most — the government has announced its decision to bring in quota in the private sector. Javadekar …

Don't know Manmohan Singh's caste but most Congress PMs were Savarnas, why didn't they think of quota bill? Asks Ram Vilas Paswan
6 years, 2 months ago

Don't know Manmohan Singh's caste but most Congress PMs were Savarnas, why didn't they think of quota bill? Asks Ram Vilas Paswan

Firstpost  

Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan said on the 10 per cent quota move that all prime ministers from Congress party barring Manmohan Singh belonged to upper castes. New Delhi: Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan said all the former Prime Ministers from the Congress party barring Manmohan Singh belonged to upper castes, however, he does not know …

HRD to work out modalities for upper caste reservation
6 years, 2 months ago

HRD to work out modalities for upper caste reservation

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Ministry of Human Resource Development is working out modalities to implement 10% reservation for the “economically weaker” sections in higher educational institutions, sources have said. The Union Cabinet Monday cleared the 10 % quota in government jobs and education for the “economically weaker” sections, meeting a key demand of upper castes, a staunch BJP support base which …

Quotas for upper caste poor in private colleges draws flak
6 years, 2 months ago

Quotas for upper caste poor in private colleges draws flak

Live Mint  

New Delhi: For the first time, private higher education institutions, both aided and unaided, will have to reserve 10% seats for the economically weaker sections, according to the reservation bill passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. “The Constitution Bill, 2019, provides for reservation for economically weaker section of the society in higher educational institutions, whether aided or unaided by …

Election stunt, says Mayawati on Centre's move to give 10pc quota to economically weak
6 years, 2 months ago

Election stunt, says Mayawati on Centre's move to give 10pc quota to economically weak

India TV News  

BSP chief Mayawati said Tuesday the Union Cabinet's decision to provide 10 per cent reservation in education and government jobs to the economically weaker sections was an "election stunt and political gimmick" of the BJP. "BSP's demand to provide reservation to the economically backward sections in general category is approved by the Cabinet in an immature way and without preparation. …

10% quota for economically weaker upper caste: Political ploy is only way to bring desired change to polarised polity
6 years, 2 months ago

10% quota for economically weaker upper caste: Political ploy is only way to bring desired change to polarised polity

Firstpost  

Narendra Modi government’s decision to amend the Constitution to provide 10 percent quota for economically weaker sections of the upper caste has generated a lot of heat and dust. Narendra Modi government’s decision to amend the Constitution to provide 10 percent reservation in college admissions and government jobs for so-called economically weaker sections of people who are not covered by …

Election stunt, says Mayawati on Centre's move to give 10pc quota for upper caste
6 years, 2 months ago

Election stunt, says Mayawati on Centre's move to give 10pc quota for upper caste

Deccan Chronicle  

Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati said Tuesday the Union Cabinet's decision to provide 10 per cent reservation in education and government jobs to the economically weaker sections was an "election stunt and political gimmick" of the BJP. "BSP's demand to provide reservation to the economically backward sections in general category is approved by the Cabinet in an immature way and without …

SC/STs quota may rise after 2021 Census, says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
6 years, 10 months ago

SC/STs quota may rise after 2021 Census, says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

Deccan Chronicle  

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said the quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes could rise after the 2021 Census. While Kumar's remark drew praise from the leaders of his party and was backed by the JD's coalition partner BJP, the opposition RJD-Congress combine dismissed it as a political gimmick and challenged the chief minister to speak …

Centre to move Supreme Court over SC/ST quota for promotion in govt jobs; may promulgate ordinance
6 years, 11 months ago

Centre to move Supreme Court over SC/ST quota for promotion in govt jobs; may promulgate ordinance

Firstpost  

Paswan said the court has ruled in favour of reservation for SCs and STs in promotion but also introduced several conditions, which have led to non-implementation of quota guidelines. New Delhi: Stepping up its Dalit outreach, the BJP-led NDA government will now push for reservation for schedules castes and tribes in promotion in government jobs and may bring an ordinance. …

Government to move Supreme Court for Dalit/ST quota in promotion: Paswan
6 years, 11 months ago

Government to move Supreme Court for Dalit/ST quota in promotion: Paswan

India TV News  

Stepping up its Dalit outreach, the BJP-led NDA government will now push for reservation for schedules castes and tribes in promotion in government jobs and may bring an ordinance. Union minister and BJP ally Ram Vilas Paswan, who has emerged as the government's key spokesperson on Dalit issues, told reporters that the government will move the apex court for the …

Centre for SC/ST promotion quota
7 years, 4 months ago

Centre for SC/ST promotion quota

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday pleaded in the Supreme Court for providing quota in promotions for SC/STs in government jobs and urged for reconsideration of an earlier verdict holding against such reservation in promotions. In October 2006, a five-judge Constitution bench in the case of Nagaraj vs Union of India has concluded the issue by holding that the state …

Nitish defends his govt's decision to introduce reservation in outsourced services
7 years, 4 months ago

Nitish defends his govt's decision to introduce reservation in outsourced services

Deccan Chronicle  

Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday defended his government's decision to introduce reservation in outsourced services and said those criticising it have "very little understanding" of the issue. Speaking on the sidelines of his weekly 'Lok Samvad' programme at his 1 Anne Marg residence, he also dismissed charges that the proposal, cleared by the cabinet last week, was an …

Nitish Kumar demands 50% reservation in private sector, calls for national debate
7 years, 4 months ago

Nitish Kumar demands 50% reservation in private sector, calls for national debate

India TV News  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday batted for a 50 per cent reservation for backward classes in private sector jobs and had called for a national debate on it. He defended his government's decision to introduce reservation in outsourced services and said those criticising it have "very little understanding" of the issue. He, however, said "we, in principle" favour …

Government mulling quota benefits to OBCs in proportion to population
8 years, 11 months ago

Government mulling quota benefits to OBCs in proportion to population

India TV News  

New Delhi: Amid growing population of SC/STs in the country, government today said it is mulling over providing reservation benefits to backward classes in proportion to their population. Earlier while debating the bill, K Somaprasad had demanded that the government should consider increasing quota benefits in proportion to the growing population of backward classes. “Reservation benefit is a constitutional right …

Nitish Kumar for extending reservation in private sector
8 years, 11 months ago

Nitish Kumar for extending reservation in private sector

India TV News  

Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday stressed on increasing the reservation quota in jobs beyond 50 per cent in view of the increasing population of Schedule Castes and also advocated extending it to the private sector. ”If population of SC is increasing the quota of reservation should also increase like in Tamil Nadu where it is 69 per …

BJP MP tells Dalits to learn from Jats, Patidars to seek reservation in private sector
9 years ago

BJP MP tells Dalits to learn from Jats, Patidars to seek reservation in private sector

India TV News  

New Delhi: BJP MP Udit Raj, the Dalit face of the saffron party, has asked members of the backward communities to realise the power of social media and use the platforms extensively to fight the battle for reservation in private sector. Stating that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and JNUSU president Kahnahiya Kumar are ‘products of social media’, the Northwest Delhi …

There is valid ground for reservation in private sector: BJP
9 years, 1 month ago

There is valid ground for reservation in private sector: BJP

Firstpost  

The recommendations of a central panel for 27 percent reservation for OBCs in private sector jobs on Tuesday evoked favourable reactions from parties. New Delhi: The recommendations of a central panel for 27 percent reservation for OBCs in private sector jobs on Tuesday evoked favourable reactions from parties with the ruling BJP noting it can be done after creating a …

Now job reservations in private sector also ?
9 years, 1 month ago

Now job reservations in private sector also ?

India TV News  

New Delhi: The National Commission for Backward Classes has recommended job quotas in Private companies for people from the marginalised sections of society, a move that may revive the controversial debate over reservations in private sector. Job opportunities in government and public sector are shrinking and it is the duty of the private sector to provide reservation to marginalised sections …

Abolish caste-based quota, says RSS ideologue
9 years, 6 months ago

Abolish caste-based quota, says RSS ideologue

The Hindu  

Senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue M.G. Vaidya has argued that caste-based reservation given to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in government jobs and educational institutions should be done away with as caste is “no more relevant.” Speaking to The Hindu in the context of the Patel community’s agitation for reservation in Gujarat, Mr. Vaidya said, …

Those appointed in government service through physically handicapped quota would also be entitled to reservation while getting promoted: SC
10 years, 1 month ago

Those appointed in government service through physically handicapped quota would also be entitled to reservation while getting promoted: SC

Live Law  

Refusing to accept the Government’s stand, a Supreme Court Bench comprising of Chief Justice H.L. Sikri has ruled that the Government cannot deny quota in promotion to the people who were initially appointed to a post under the reservation policy for the physically handicapped.The Court was hearing the Government’s plea against a decision of the Bombay High Court. Sikri has …

Lalu Yadav demands quota in government contracts for backward castes
10 years, 8 months ago

Lalu Yadav demands quota in government contracts for backward castes

India TV News  

Vaishali : Raking up the reservation issue, RJD President Lalu Prasad today demanded 60 per cent reservation in government contracts for people belonging to Extremely Backward Castes. Like yesterday, Prasad raised the ‘Mandal' plank that had brought him to power in 1990.Politics in Bihar had taken a sharp turn in the ‘90s after implementation of Mandal commission report providing reservation …

Govt in talks with private sector for job reservations
11 years, 7 months ago

Govt in talks with private sector for job reservations

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The government is in talks with the private sector on the issue of providing reservation in jobs, but wants to do it in an “amicable way”, social justice minister Kumari Selja said on Saturday. Selja was winding up a discussion on a Bill seeking to modify the existing list of Scheduled Castes in four states, including Odisha, and …

Ensure job quota for Dalits in private sector: Prakash Karat
12 years, 3 months ago

Ensure job quota for Dalits in private sector: Prakash Karat

The Hindu  

Communist Party of India general secretary Prakash Karat has demanded that legislation be passed to provide for reservation to Dalits in private sector jobs as well as privately-run educational institutions. Speaking at the inauguration of a seminar organised by the CPI Dalit Rights Sub-Committee here on Wednesday, Mr. Karat said that all private industries that enjoy subsidy benefits on land …

Promotion quota, if passed, to be implemented from 1995
12 years, 6 months ago

Promotion quota, if passed, to be implemented from 1995

The Hindu  

The Centre proposes to implement reservation in promotion for SCs and STs in government jobs with retrospective effect from June, 1995, according to the bill introduced in Rajya Sabha during the monsoon session. “It is also necessary to give retrospective effect to the proposed clause of Article 16 with effect from the date of coming into force of that clause …

Govt urges opposition to get quota bill passed in RS
12 years, 6 months ago

Govt urges opposition to get quota bill passed in RS

India TV News  

New Delhi, Sept 5: Against the backdrop of opposition by Samajwadi Party and disruption of proceedings by BJP over coalgate issue, Government today appealed to all political parties to get a bill providing for reservation to SCs and STs in promotions in government jobs passed in Rajya Sabha today. Parliamentary Affair Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said he wanted BJP not …

Reservation & beyond
12 years, 7 months ago

Reservation & beyond

The Hindu  

Let us for a moment forget the debate on reservation in the matter of promotions for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and look at the policy as a whole. We have a situation in which even those caste groups which are economically and socially well off enjoy the benefits of reservation. Avinash Ganga, Hyderabad Have you ever heard …

Why quotas for promotions are a bad, bad idea
12 years, 7 months ago

Why quotas for promotions are a bad, bad idea

Firstpost  

Sixty years after promising job reservations, we are extending this bad idea even further - to job promotions. This is why barring the Samajwadi Party – which is gung-ho about reservations in general – no one was willing to oppose caste-based promotions when the PM called an all-party meeting to discuss the issue. A third argument is to say, “see, …

Govt defers plan to bring Bill for job promotion reservation
12 years, 7 months ago

Govt defers plan to bring Bill for job promotion reservation

India TV News  

New Delhi, Aug 22: Government's plan to bring an amended Bill today to provide for reservation in job promotions to SCs/STs has been put off with most political parties on Tuesday favouring a legally-sustainable legislation in the backdrop of the Supreme Court striking down such a measure. At an all-party meeting convened by him to evolve a consensus on the …

Constitution amendment for promotion quota: PM
12 years, 7 months ago

Constitution amendment for promotion quota: PM

The Hindu  

The government will amend the Constitution, if need be, to provide reservation in job promotions to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. This was announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday at the conclusion of an all-party meeting here, at which most parties called for legally sustainable legislation in the backdrop of the Supreme Court striking down such …

Bill for providing quota to SCs/STs in government job promotions soon
12 years, 7 months ago

Bill for providing quota to SCs/STs in government job promotions soon

The Hindu  

A bill for providing reservation to SCs/STs in promotions in government jobs will be brought in Parliament within a fortnight, the Rajya Sabha was told on Thursday. Taking up cudgels for a Constitutional amendment to correct the situation after the Supreme Court upheld a High Court decision striking down reservation in promotions for SCs/STs introduced by the Uttar Pradesh government, …

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