Adarsh Housing Society is a 31-storey apartment complex built in Mumbai s Colaba. The building should have originally housed war heroes and war widows of 1999 Kargil war. However, the occupants of the complex ended up being bureaucrats and relatives of politicians who were not at all connected with the Kargil war. The issue had been in the news since 2003 but the probe began only in 2010, following which the Army and CBI launched separate probes. What, at first, appeared as a misuse of granted land, turned murkier as the revelations of the probe grew. It was found that the Navy had objected to the Maharashtra government according permission for Occupation Certificates citing “serious security concerns” as the 100-metre tall building stood next to a planned helipad and military installations. It was also found that the society didn’t obtain a NoC from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, and above all the society had permission to build only six floors. When ben
The Forgotten Dimension of Diversity
Social class is as important as race or gender. by Olalekan Jeyifous Summary.
Workers who come from lower social-class origins in the United States are 32% less likely to become managers than those who come from higher social-class origins. That represents a disadvantage even greater than the one experienced by women compared with men (27%) or Blacks compared with whites (25%). Social class disadvantage in the workplace prevails in every major economy around the world.
In discriminating against people who come from a lower social class, we’re discriminating against a majority of the workforce a grossly harmful indulgence, especially when you consider what happens if you