Industry Opposed To Quota Law

Sunil Bharti Mittal President of CII arrived at the Prime Minister''s Office on Saturday.The Prime Minister''s Office had asked Mittal and his colleagues from FICCI and Assocham for a progress report on affirmative action.

In other words what had they done to give SC/ST candidates employment in the private sector? What they got was a roadmap to help SC/STs join the private sector without a quota.We are working on the area of education, employability and employment. All the three chambers are working towards this, said Mittal.

Even last year when the government had suggested that the private sector reserve jobs for SC/STs, industry bodies like CII, FICCI and Assocham had opposed it.They are still opposed to it and the government didn''t seem too happy.It has been three years of this government and they have done nothing, said Ram Vilas Paswan, Fertilizer Minister.What India Inc says this is what will help SC/STs get jobs.

Industry bodies will train about 5,000 SC ST students every year by adopting 50 industrial training institutes across the country. They will pay half the Rs 750 stipend that trainees get every month.Industry bodies say they have identified 110 districts where there is over 40 per cent SC/ST population and the government should announce an incentive package for investors to set up plants in these districts.