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Abstract: The number of people employed under public sector is decreasing every year. The peculiar pluralist character of Indian society, with diverse living standards of people, necessitates differential and preferential treatment. There is an alienation of certain sections of people from the main stream of the society due to social, economic, political and economic backwardness. In fact, there subsists social exclusion of such sections of people in India. Looking from the perception of justice, treating 'equals' equally and 'unequals' unequally, the state is coerced to provide positive discrimination. Reservation is the key process of social inclusion. However, reservation has to compromise quality as well as productivity and therefore, unlike in public sector its appliance in private sector is tedious task. In recent times, the government of India has been giving greater emphasis on privatisation in their policy framework. Leaving many posts under the public sector unfilled and promoting informal employment has become another policy of the government. Despite this trend, the demand for employment in public sector is very high. The national employment exchange statistics report discloses that over 433.8 lakhs of job seekers have registered for employment in period 2012-16. This privatisation policy would definitely alter the prevailing reservation statistics and create a very redundant social environment for the people belonging to the backward sections. There is also the dichotomy of raising the percentage of reservation on the one side and falling public employment rate, where reservation is applicable, on the other side. The progress brought about by privatisation would benefit mainly the forward sections of people. Apart from the perpetuation of the existing social exclusion, large scale privatisation would give birth to new socially excluded sections of people.