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11 Aug, 2007, 0246 hrs IST,Man Mohan Rai, TNN
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LUCKNOW: Amid heated national debate on job reservations in private sector, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh has quietly introduced a novel way of providing job quotas for the disadvantaged.
The state Cabinet meeting here on Friday decided that corporates setting up new projects in select sectors may go for voluntary job reservation of 30%, if they wish to avail of tax concessions in the state. In effect, the decision takes away tax reliefs and concessions for new projects in specified sectors which do not provide job quotas.
As per the Cabinet decision, industrial units, infrastructure projects, educational institutes, service sector projects and disinvested units, which are set up with fiscal incentives, will have to provide 30% job reservation.
Projects in these categories, which propose to make use of land, grants, or tax concessions from the government or its departments will have to sign a contract with the government.
Of the 30%, 10% jobs will be reserved for scheduled castes, 10% for other backward castes and backward religious minorities and 10% for the economically weaker sections from upper castes.
Chief minister Mayawati said that with meagre government job opportunities and a host of private projects coming up in the state, the decision will provide opportunities to the disadvantaged sections of the society.
Principal secretary to the CM Shailesh Krishna claimed that the reservations are voluntary in nature. âOnly those private sector projects which seek and avail of concessions and tax benefits from the government will have to enter into a contract with the government to provide reservations. Those projects which do not wish to avail of concessions can set up units without providing any reservations and we will provide all help and cooperation in the execution of their projects,â Mr Krishna said.
He said the contract for providing reservations will be limited only to fresh private sector investments and those government units that are privatised.
âThis is not a new law. It will only be a contract between the government and the private party, that in lieu of various tax benefits and reliefs being offered, they will reserve 30% of jobs,â stressed Mr Krishna.
11 Aug, 2007, 0246 hrs IST,Man Mohan Rai, TNN
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LUCKNOW: Amid heated national debate on job reservations in private sector, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh has quietly introduced a novel way of providing job quotas for the disadvantaged.
The state Cabinet meeting here on Friday decided that corporates setting up new projects in select sectors may go for voluntary job reservation of 30%, if they wish to avail of tax concessions in the state. In effect, the decision takes away tax reliefs and concessions for new projects in specified sectors which do not provide job quotas.
As per the Cabinet decision, industrial units, infrastructure projects, educational institutes, service sector projects and disinvested units, which are set up with fiscal incentives, will have to provide 30% job reservation.
Projects in these categories, which propose to make use of land, grants, or tax concessions from the government or its departments will have to sign a contract with the government.
Of the 30%, 10% jobs will be reserved for scheduled castes, 10% for other backward castes and backward religious minorities and 10% for the economically weaker sections from upper castes.
Chief minister Mayawati said that with meagre government job opportunities and a host of private projects coming up in the state, the decision will provide opportunities to the disadvantaged sections of the society.
Principal secretary to the CM Shailesh Krishna claimed that the reservations are voluntary in nature. âOnly those private sector projects which seek and avail of concessions and tax benefits from the government will have to enter into a contract with the government to provide reservations. Those projects which do not wish to avail of concessions can set up units without providing any reservations and we will provide all help and cooperation in the execution of their projects,â Mr Krishna said.
He said the contract for providing reservations will be limited only to fresh private sector investments and those government units that are privatised.
âThis is not a new law. It will only be a contract between the government and the private party, that in lieu of various tax benefits and reliefs being offered, they will reserve 30% of jobs,â stressed Mr Krishna.