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By: Srikanth Srinivasan

Srikanth Srinivasan — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:08:18 +0000

Prasanna,

Totally agree with you. As if it wasn’t enough that the recent bill on reservation in private unaided colleges passed through Parliament without so much as a pipsqueak (BJP arguing for reservation in the minority institutions was less than a pipsqueak by any standards), now the idiots want to reserve jobs in the private sector, to boot! It’s like they’re (`they’ is mostly CPI(M)) telling the business owners, “You thought our prohibitive labour laws were too much? Now you’re really going to get it up the ass!!”

My advice (which I hope to follow soon): Get out, get out, all ye achievers. Leave India to its chosen `leaders’ and let us see what they make of it.

By: Prasanna

Prasanna — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:07:21 +0000

Morons one and all. No, not the politicians, but the people who buy into the “reservation” theory.

The funniest, no the saddest actualy, part of it all - the government decides what you can do/get depending on who you were born to. In effect perpetuating the discrimination inherent in the caste system.

By: The Indian Economy Blog » Blog Archive » More On the Job Reservation Policy Front

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:03:43 +0000

[...] Job Reservation Policy Front
December 19th, 2005 by Edward

Following-up on Amrit’s earlier post, New Economist has linked to a new paper by by Vani K. Boroo [...]

By: New Economist

New Economist — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:28:35 +0000

Thanks for this post, Amit. It may well be time for a rethink of the whole job reservation policy, as my post today argues - drawing on some recent economic research on its impact.

New Economist
India’s job reservation policy: extend, or rethink?

By: aak

aak — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:21:55 +0000

To get the job one need to have basic education.With around 40% students dropping out at the primary level of education,hence forced to work in unorganized sector the idea of job reservation in private sector is ridiculous

By: Ashok Hegde

Ashok Hegde — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:14:28 +0000

I wouldn’t believe everything a TOI report, quoting unnamed sources, says. Such kite-flying is common among journalists. Such balloon-floating is common among politicians.
Forget it being economically-sound, I don’t think it’s even a politically-sound idea.

By: Abhinay

Abhinay — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:48:30 +0000

Private sector reservation is essentially disallowing one from spending one’s own money as they please, if you look at it deeply.

This is a violation of human rights - preventing someone from hiring whomever they like. Already our taxes are being burned, now there go our investments as well. Just shows that the government has too much power in India. Too much more than it is good for us.

Is there any reason at all to be happy about the Indian economy?