Author: Zopag News Network
Publication: Zopag.com
Date: July 4, 2009
URL: http://zopag.com/news/reservation-in-pvt-sector-no-answer-salman-khurshid/4305/0
The government said that creating more jobs,
not reservation, is needed for the uplift of weaker sections of society.
"I am not a great votary of reservation.
I don't believe reservation is the answer for the future," Minority Affairs
Minister Salman Khurshid said here at a function organised by industry body
Confederation of Indian Industry.
The minister, who is also holding the charge
of the Corporate Affairs Ministry, said that empowerment and capacity building
are the answers and not reservation.
The previous UPA government had asked the
private sector to go for affirmative action in giving jobs to weaker sections
as part of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Khurshid pointed out that the country can
achieve equality effectively with affirmative action as it is a more smooth
process, is accommodative and goes farther than reservations.
