Issue of Employment

Even as governments want more and more sections of society to benefit from reservations in public sector jobs, the truth is the size of the cake itself is becoming smaller. As a recent report published in the Indian Express, annual Central government recruitment (including in the Railways) has fallen from 1,13,524 to 1,00,933 between 2014-15 and 2016-17. The same period has also seen the outstanding workforce shrink from 16.91 lakh to 15.23 lakh in Central public sector undertakings, and from 9.47 lakh to 8.97 lakh in public sector banks (including regional rural banks). It raises the obvious question:

Do quotas, whether ....