Quota for Dalits in Pvt Sector Essential
Thiruvananthapuram:Lok Janshakthi Party(LJP) leader and Union Minister for Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs Ram Vilas Paswan said that providing quota for Dalits in jobs in the private sector was essential for their uplift in the country.
Speaking to ‘Express’ here on Wednesday, he said that it was not true that the living conditions of the Dalits were remaining the same even several decades after Independence. “There are definitely changes in the living conditions. But it has to get further momentum. But what has been there is only job quota in government service. Even that too is not distributed in a just manner in all parts of the country. What is actually required for Dalits is quota in jobs in private sector as well,’’ he said.
When pointed out that though he had been in various Union Cabinets since 1989 there is little progress for the community to which he belonged, Paswan said during the the first UPA regime he could persuade the government to include the job quota for Dalits in private sector in its Common Minimum Programed (CMP). However, under the second UPA regime, it was deleted from the CMP. When asked about the pathetic living conditions of Dalits in Bihar and UP despite the successive rule by parties of the Janata Pariwar and so-called socialists, Paswan said it as true that there was backwardness and poverty among the Dalits.
Source: The New Indian Express
