Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Centre will not push for reservations in the private sector and instead wants to discuss affirmative action with the industry, CNN-IBN has learnt.
This change in plan on implementing reservation in the private sector comes ahead of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s meeting with industry chambers on November 15. Ahead of that meeting, the centre has taken certain important decisions regarding reservations.
The sector will have to form a blueprint on affirmative action by March, but no decision has been taken on penalising companies who don't meet targets.
Industry chambers will monitor the implementation of the plan. A Group of Ministers will meet industry chambers on November 15 to prepare a code of conduct on affirmative action to be adopted on job reservation in the private sector.
The Government has initiated wide-ranging consultations with industrial houses with a view to exploring ways to ensure affirmative action including job reservation in the private sector.
In order to concretise the suggestions and actions points in this regard into a time-bound action programme, the Prime Minister had constituted a coordination committee under the chairmanship of his Principal Secretary T K A Nair.
Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Meira Kumar has held several rounds of talks with industry captains under the leadership of Ratan Tata on providing reservation in the private sector, they said.
The industry had expressed its unwillingness to provide reservation but had voiced readiness for affirmative action on a voluntary basis.
Two years ago, the Prime Minister had said the government would reserve jobs for backward caste candidates in the private sector and asked India Inc to do so voluntarily.
"There cannot be any resistance to this move (jobs for SCs/STs in the private sector) any more. It is an idea whose time has come," Singh had said during a visit to Mumbai.
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