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The Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Smt. Meira Kumar has urged the multi-national companies to keep national policies in view while developing their employment policies. Addressing a conference on Corporate Social Responsibility here today, Smt. Kumar said that the multi-national companies and private sector in India must give equal opportunity and fair share to discriminated groups. She said that the globalisation with a widening space for trans-national companies would be meaningless provided it also provides space for neglected sections of Indian society. The Minister said that this would require affirmative policies for imparting education and developing skills and entrepreneurship among the disadvantaged groups. She said that the private sector must participate in it. Smt. Kumar said that the shift away from public sector to private sector has given the corporate social responsibility a new perspective. She said that business organisations have stake in the development of a socially just, productive and empowered society as a business cannot succeed in a failed society. She said that private sector in India and the trans-national companies should recognise that Indian society is characterized by particular social and economic structure which has led to the economic and market discrimination of large sections of population. The Minister said that the corporate social responsibility is at the epicenter of the sustainable development in which the corporate sector is not increasingly perceived as a partner to governments.
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