Undeterred by the controversy, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan expressed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's resolve to bring a Bill before Parliament seeking reservation of jobs for socially backward sections in the private sector. | |
| "Nobody can stop reservation in the private sector. We (UPA) are committed to the issue as per our cmp and a bill in this regard will be brought in parliament soon," Paswan said here. |
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| "The issue of reservation is a national issue and should be supported by all political parties," the minister for steel and chemicals and fertilisers said at a seminar on reservation in private sector. |
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| Demanding extension of reservation in all the privatised psus, cpi secretary d raja blamed the previous NDA government's privatisation policy for declining job opportunities for the backward classes. |
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| The private sector should initiate a meaningful dialogue on reservation and "the government should also play a proactive role in implementing reservation," the communist leader added. |
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| Paswan said that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had also assured of pursuing the matter. |
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| The Lok Jan Shakti party president also demanded reservation for wards of backward class people in public schools besides setting up of a fund from the disinvestment proceeds for training students from the under privileged sections. |
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