Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Political gamesmanship over India’s reservations policy could cast a shadow over India’s ambitions of emerg¬ing as a global economic power in the 21st

Over the query of giving compensation to backward classes for past suffered deprivation, Dhaka of PHDCCI says, “The compensation... for deprivation in yesteryears should not extend to tomorrow and become a counter weapon which makes others suffer the same fate.”

Advocates of reservation argue that due to the ongoing policy of liberalization and privatisation, the non-backward classes have benefited; and employment opportunities specifically for the backward classes have reduced. The data available from 939 employment exchanges in the country, as of September 2002, indicates that the total number of job seekers in those exchanges were of the order of 41.6 million (including backward and general classes).

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Source:- IIPM Editorial