Prakash Karat calls for quota in private sector
The PKS had also launched a rally from Kasargod on July 25 which arrived in the Capital on Sunday
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-08-19 05:22 GMT
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPM politburo member Prakash Karat on Tuesday urged the centre to implement reservation policy in the private sector. Inaugurating the Secretariat march organised by the CPM-led Pattikajathi Kshema Samithi (PKS) here, the former party general secretary said that privatisation and liberalisation policy implemented in the country over the last two decades had deprived Dalits of job opportunities. “It is in this backdrop we are demanding reservation for them in private sector,” he said.
Mr Karat said that apart from reservation, all landless Dalit families should be given land and houses besides educational assistance. Earlier, hundreds of activists of PKS took out a march from Asan Square to the Secretariat.
As part of the agitation, the PKS had also launched a rally from Kasargod on July 25 which arrived in the Capital on Sunday.
PKS leaders said there was no reservation in the government-aided sector on which Rs 8,000 crore was being spent annually.
Even the high court had directed that reservation policy be implemented in such institutions.