Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 17 (HBTV): On Tuesday, the Karnataka cabinet approved a Bill that seeks to reserve 50 per cent of management jobs and 75 per cent of non-management jobs for locals in the private sector. The bill also seeks 100 per cent reservation for locals in "C&D" grade government jobs.    

On Wednesday several industry leaders in the state objected to the move saying that it is "discriminatory" and raised apprehensions that the tech industry may suffer.  

Mohandas Pai, the chairman of Manipal Global Education Services said that the Bill is "fascist" and also unconstitutional. 

‘This bill should be junked. It is discriminatory, regressive and against the constitution. This is a fascist bill as in Animal Farm, unbelievable that INC India can come up with a bill like this — a govt officer will sit on recruitment committees of the private sector? People have to take a language test?’ Pai said in a post on X.  

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the executive chairperson of Biocon Limited said that the state should not let this Bill affect its leading position in the domain of technology and there should be exemptions for highly skilled recruitment.  

"As a tech hub, we need skilled talent and whilst the aim is to provide jobs for locals we must not affect our leading position in technology by this move. There must be caveats that exempt highly skilled recruitment from this policy," Shaw posted on X.

RK Misra, the co-chairman of ASSOCHAM in Karnataka and the co-founder of YULU called the Bill shortsighted and said that if a government officer is appointed in every private company to monitor its implementation, it will scare away Indian IT and Global Capability Centres. 

(ANI)