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Making India a Land of Equal Opportunities
Today, India has safely moved out from the global risk of recession and emerged as a global hub for business expansions and bilateral trade for many countries. We have seen this year’s Union Budget offering infrastructure development and a lot of revenue generation for the benefit of farmers; today, the common man can easily float the FDI in the Indian market. This favourable scenario has shown positive growth during the 1stQ of 2010-11 and many countries have taken interest in strengthening bilateral trade relations and forming joint ventures/ partnerships with Indian companies. While I am satisfied by seeing that we are doing better than other developing countries, I am worried by the government giving ‘minority’ status to the Jains. India being a democratic country, people from various religions, castes and creeds live happily here. For decades, under-privileged communities like SC/ST needed our special attention for their enrichment in society. In 2007, the honourable Prime Minister took the initiative for taking Affirmative Action, in joint efforts with the Government and the Industry. Implementing this can bring equality in terms of opportunities. Other imbalances have to be removed by our own competence by focusing on the four core areas of Education, Employability, Employment and Entrepreneurship. By practicing these 4 E’s, this mission is possible. I propose to create a system in which the less privileged/ minorities (SC/ST) would get an opportunity to compete and excel. We need to make a policy, which would be structured in such a way that it removes the very need to have it erased over a set period. With concerted efforts, we can remove social, religious, caste, and creed-based imbalances from this country. Under the ‘Affirmative-Long-term Action Plan’, the Government and the Industry can together eradicate reservations from this country, in just 10 simple steps: 1. Create a structured policy that can be fragmented for a separate mission led by the joint effort of the government and industry/institutions, for its intended purpose. The government would support free education under certain established norms till Step no. 4. Further, the industry would be accountable for sponsoring the program. 2. Under this policy, education should be made compulsory for every child in the Reserved Category. 3. These children should be provided with free education till Secondary School (SSC). 4. The deserving SSC students should be further provided with free education till the Higher Secondary (HSC). 5. Industry should identify selected deserving SSC/ HSC students, through `Aptitude Tests’, counseling them about the various career options that match their eligibility and profile. The Industry should sponsor free vocational/ special training, under the `Skill Development initiative.’ Upon successful completion, these ‘employable candidates’ would be absorbed as employees. 6. Depending on the aptitude test, a few candidates could be provided/supported with ‘entrepreneurship’ opportunities and then absorbed as vendors. 7. Students who qualified in SSC, but failed at the HSC should be offered Class IV- employment against the reserved quota in Government. 8. MOST IMPORTANT: Upon having an Employment/ Entrepreneurship, those who enjoyed these privileged benefits would acknowledge the fact and in return, confirm in writing to the government/industry-led joint authority that they would provide compulsory and paid education to their next generation. 9. There would not be Reservation/ Quota for their promotions. It will be linked to their performance. 10. This programme should start nation-wide at the same time, for a set-period of at least 20 years, and have periodic reviews and modifications. I am sure that this proposed program would systematically reduce the existing reservation/ quota system in our country. Let’s wish, these thoughts would help us in making India a land of equal opportunities.
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