Revision of Income
Criterion to exclude Socially Advanced Persons/ Sections (Creamy Layer)
from list of other Backward Classes (OBCs)
The Union Cabinet today
gave its approval for increase in the present income criterion of Rs.
4.5 lakh per annum for applying the Creamy Layer restriction throughout
the country, for excluding Socially Advanced Persons/Sections (Creamy
Layer) from the purview of reservation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
The new income criterion
will be Rs. 6 lakh per annum. The increase in the income limit to
exclude the Creamy Layer is in keeping with the increase in the Consumer
Price Index and would enable more persons to take advantage of
reservation benefits extended to OBCs in government services and
admission to central educational institutions.
This would bring about
equity and greater inclusiveness in society. The Department of Personnel
and Training and the Ministry of Human Resource Development would issue
necessary orders to this effect.
Source: PIB News
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