Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said his government has decided to withhold the bill mandating job reservation for Kannadigas in the private sector due to “certain confusion.” He said the bill will be taken up for discussion in the next cabinet meeting to clear the doubts. “On Monday, complete discussion (on the topic)
File photo Bengaluru: Karnataka’s Minister for Large and Medium Industries MB Patil has justified the Congress government’s decision to withhold the introduction of the bill providing reservation of jobs in the private sector for Kannadigas and assured industry leaders that they “need not panic”. Mr Patil took to social media platform X on Wednesday and
Sameer Nigam argued that the bill was “unfair” to people like him New Delhi: PhonePe CEO and co-founder Sameer Nigam has opposed the Karnataka government’s private jobs quota bill, which aims to reserve a significant portion of jobs in the private sector for locals. In a post on X, Mr Nigam, who said he has
File photo New Delhi: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the founder of pharmaceutical giant Biocon, on Wednesday opposed the proposal to reserve private jobs for local hires in Karnataka, which houses the country’s information technology hub Bengaluru. Taking to her official X account, Ms Shaw said highly skilled recruitment must be exempted from the Karnataka government’s decision mandating
Nasscom says the bill “threatens to drive away companies”. (Representational) Bengaluru: A day after the Karnataka cabinet approved a bill mandating reservation for locals in the private sector jobs, software body Nasscom has sought its withdrawal saying the provisions “threaten to drive away companies”. The bill enforces 50 percent reservation for administrative posts and 75