It was a wake-up call for India Inc, recalls Jamshed J Irani, Director, Tata Sons, when in early 2006, the then Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment and the Congress party's Dalit face, Meira Kumar, started meeting top CEOs to seek their support for a legislation on employment reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the private sector. In an interview with The Indian Express some time back, Irani who leads the affirmative action plan in the Tata Group that employs some 3.75 lakh people—tacitly admitted that the corporate sector had not quite consciously worked to mainstream the idea till five years ago.
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