Monday, March 24, 2008

The Practice of Diversity in India : Pros and Cons

Diversity is very vastly exercised in the Indian subcontinent in terms of thought (mostly political), culture, perspective, gender, and most importantly 'race'. There are many pros and cons of India being a diverse nation. With reference to gender, there are many impositions to a female quota in any company or institution, which has been providing a positive impact and hence, has helped in uplifting the previously undervalued talent pool of the country. With the female share of the workforce compulsorily regulated to be at least 20% in any organization, there have been very successful emerging businesswomen in the industry such as Kiran Mazumdar of Biocon, Sudha Murthy of Infosys et cetera. This would be one of the many pros of extensive diversity in India.
There are also many cons that are associated with diversity, which mainly includes unethical exploitation of certain privileges provided by the Indian Government for certain races of people in the economy. For instance, during university admissions or company job recruitment sessions, there is usually a minimum cut-off for a candidate's academic aggregate of marks. This is most often say 90%. However, for certain particular races, this cut-off is lowered down to around 55%. A candidate can place himself in this "privileged" category by producing a government-endorsed certificate. Most of the times, this document is easily approved for a person from any other race, with the help of a small amount of lobbying. Hence, this loop- hole is well exploited and practiced extensively leading to unethical eligibility for a particular position.
So, what I want to convey is that, you really have weigh out all the possible pros and cons of a particular diversification and then conclude on the level of partiality, which is supposed to be enforced between the categories.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What an informative report! Thank you so much for the contribution! Let's finally clarify what are the pros and cons of globalization overall. It remains to be unanswered!