{"id":308206,"date":"2020-01-01T13:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T07:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308206"},"modified":"2020-01-01T13:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T07:45:23","slug":"pmo-examines-concerns-over-divestment-hit-on-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pmo-examines-concerns-over-divestment-hit-on-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"PMO examines concerns over divestment hit on reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) has asked the department of investment and public asset management (DIPAM) to examine the issue of job reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in state-run companies following disinvestment, two officials with direct knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns have been raised by various stakeholders about a sharp fall in job opportunities for SCs, STs and OBCs after the disinvestment of government\u2019s equity stakes in public sector enterprises (PSEs), either because of a change in management control or the dilution of the government\u2019s shareholdings below 51%, the two officials said, requesting anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA PMO reference has been received by DIPAM on the issue of SC\/ST reservation in the PSUs listed for disinvestment. It is under examination,\u201d said the first official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO) has asked the department of investment and public asset management (DIPAM) to examine the issue of job reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in state-run companies following disinvestment, two officials with direct knowledge of the matter said. Concerns have been raised by various stakeholders about a sharp fall in job opportunities for SCs, STs and OBCs after the disinvestment of government\u2019s equity stakes in public sector enterprises (PSEs), either because of a change in management control or the dilution of the government\u2019s shareholdings below 51%, the two officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}