UP raises creamy layer income ceiling from Rs 3 lakh to 5 lakh
With a view to wooing the OBCs, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet today decided to enhance the annual income ceiling for the creamy layer from Rs three lakh to Rs five lakh, a move that will bring more people from the community under the ambit of reservat...
By PTI |
LUCKNOW: With a view to wooing the OBCs, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet today decided to enhance the annual income ceiling for the creamy layer from Rs three lakh to Rs five lakh, a move that will bring more people from the community under the ambit of reservation.
"A decision to enhance the creamy layer limit was taken in the cabinet meeting for benefiting the poor," Chief Minister Mayawati told newspersons here.
The BSP supremo had sharply reacted to the Centre's October 3 move to increase the annual income limit for the creamy layer from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh, saying it was not enough.
Mayawati today said she has written a letter to the Prime Minister seeking the further raising of the ceiling. Earlier in the day, at a convention of the scheduled castes, tribes and OBCs, she said the Union Government hike was not in keeping with the rate of inflation.
In another important decision, the Cabinet fixed the minimum support price of sugarcane for the 2008-09 crushing season at Rs 140 per quintal, increasing it from the existing Rs 125 and for the early variety at Rs 145 from 130.
The Chief Minister said it was for the first time that any government in the state had increased the rate by Rs 15 per quintal in one go.
With a view to arranging funds for meeting the extra burden in implementing the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, the Cabinet decided to amend the law for selling vacant 'nazul' land (land given on lease by civic authorities to private persons for non-agricultural purposes) which would bring it an additional income of Rs 300 crore.
"A decision to enhance the creamy layer limit was taken in the cabinet meeting for benefiting the poor," Chief Minister Mayawati told newspersons here.
The BSP supremo had sharply reacted to the Centre's October 3 move to increase the annual income limit for the creamy layer from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh, saying it was not enough.
Mayawati today said she has written a letter to the Prime Minister seeking the further raising of the ceiling. Earlier in the day, at a convention of the scheduled castes, tribes and OBCs, she said the Union Government hike was not in keeping with the rate of inflation.
In another important decision, the Cabinet fixed the minimum support price of sugarcane for the 2008-09 crushing season at Rs 140 per quintal, increasing it from the existing Rs 125 and for the early variety at Rs 145 from 130.
The Chief Minister said it was for the first time that any government in the state had increased the rate by Rs 15 per quintal in one go.
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With a view to arranging funds for meeting the extra burden in implementing the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, the Cabinet decided to amend the law for selling vacant 'nazul' land (land given on lease by civic authorities to private persons for non-agricultural purposes) which would bring it an additional income of Rs 300 crore.
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