SME Times News Bureau | 10 Feb, 2016
The National Commission of
Backward Classes has written to the social justice ministry to bring a
bill for providing 27 percent reservation for backward classes in
private sector jobs, a member said on Tuesday.
Shakeel-uz-Zaman
Ansari said that panel had sent its recommendation for a bill for
private sector quota to the ministry ahead of the budget session of
parliament that begins February 23, adding the decision to make the
recommendation was taken at a meeting of the panel held earlier this
month.
He said the issue had been taken up by the commission in
"a routine manner" as part of its work for the welfare of backward
classes.
"We have made a specific recommendation to bring a
bill to provide 27 percent reservation in private sector jobs to OBCs,"
he said.
He said the issue of reservation in private sector jobs
was not new and suggestions have also been made for reservation in
private sector for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.
The commission is a statutory body under the social justice ministry.
The
government has said in the past that there is no proposal under its
consideration for reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs in the private
sector.
It had formed a coordination committee under the
chairmanship of the principal secretary to prime minister in October
2006 to carry forward the dialogue with industry on affirmative action
for SCs and STs.
