Rijiju's statement came after ST/SC MPs of BJP met PM Modi and jointly submitted a memorandum regarding the Supreme Court's observation on ...

A 2023 parliamentary report reveals that a significant portion of SC/ST job quotas in central government positions remains unfilled annuall...

The Supreme Court upheld sub-classification within Scheduled Castes for additional benefits, provided states can justify it with empirical ...

In a 15-page affidavit filed on Tuesday - after the Supreme Court (SC) questioned the logic behind arriving at the annual income ceiling of...

The Centre Tuesday justified before the Supreme Court its decision to set the limit of Rs 8 lakh annual income fixed for determining the Ec...

A 5-judge Constitution bench in 2018 held that the well-off members of the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities cann...

The latest was in 2018, when it dismissed a plea by attorney general KK Venugopal to refer the issue to a bench of seven judges. He raised ...

"Creamy layer" is the section of backward castes which is considered economically advanced and ineligible for reservations.

The Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of Other Backward Classes headed by Lok Sabha member Ganesh Singh is currently examining the subject.

The bench said their backwardness has been recognised as inherent to them after statutorily provided scrutiny to warrant inclusion in the l...

The Supreme Court Wednesday said its 2006 verdict putting benefits of quotas in job promotions for SC/ST employees need not be referred to ...

Crucially, the axe on these OBCs this year comes despite a Delhi high court judgment in March which slammed the Centre’s method of calculat...

The apex court said it would take time to constitute a bench to re-examine a 2006 verdict that the creamy-layer-exclusion principle could n...

For the backward-championing netas, the apex court judgement denying creamy layer among OBCs the benefits of reservation in higher educatio...

The creamy layer issue was not to be touched, the panel was told. The final report, thus, came out in favour of granting the benefits of re...

The Supreme Court’s direction to keep the ‘creamy layer’ out of the ambit of OBC reservations in Central universities, IITs and IIMs by fol...

If the OBC quota judgement was expected to consolidate OBC votes for the ruling side, then the devil in the detail may thwart the project.