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SC agrees to examine if benefit of quota must be given to communities who continue to be socially, economically backwardThe Supreme Court will review quota benefits. The court wants to ensure the most backward communities benefit. A petition was filed by memb...
Economically weaker sections verdict: One more quota, with reservationsOn Monday, a five-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court upheld the 103rd constitutional amendment by a majority of 3:2.
Govt takes OBC creamy layer to drawing boardThe social justice and empowerment ministry will begin consultations and examine the issue of increasing the ceiling limit from the present...
Centre cites Sinho Panel creamy layer note to defend EWS income cap in Supreme CourtIn a 15-page affidavit filed on Tuesday - after the Supreme Court (SC) questioned the logic behind arriving at the annual income ceiling of...
Proposal for revision of OBC creamy layer income criteria under consideration: GovtResponding to another question, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Rattan Lal Kataria said a committee was constituted to...
Hike in income cap of OBC creamy layer anytime now: Thaawar Chand GehlotThe government will increase the income ceiling limit for creamy layer of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) very soon, social justice and empow...
Centre to hike creamy layer ceiling for OBCs to Rs 12 lakhThe move is likely to have a direct bearing on the Bihar assembly elections, where OBCs comprise 41% of the population. BJP has been trying...
Centre set to increase creamy layer ceiling for OBCsA group of ministers headed by defence minister Rajnath Singh has been tasked to upwardly revise the gross annual income limit of Rs 8 lakh...
Expert panel to review OBC ‘creamy layer’ criteria after 26 yearsThe government has given expert panel 15 days to submit report on this contentious issue.
'Wealth test' tweak to help determine OBC creamy layer?"Creamy layer" is the section of backward castes which is considered economically advanced and ineligible for reservations.
Rs 8 lakh income cap, land criteria for 10% quota not final: MinisterClauses 4 and 5 in Article 15 of the Constitution had posed the hurdle to reservation for the less well-off among castes not covered by Dal...
Government to tag creamy layer posts in PSUsFM Jaitley said the initiative, coupled with other moves, like subcategorisation of OBCs and hike in salary bar, were aimed at better targe...
- Recasting 2011 census: Too little, too late
What we lose by this careless inclusion of caste in the census of 2011 is an opportunity to debate the underlying nature of social inequali...
- Govt to revise creamy layer income criteria
UPA govt will come up with a revised income criteria applicable for the ‘creamy layer’ OBC categories to adjust more of such categories wit...
- All about full cream, toned, double-toned
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...
- Now, Moily wants quota for Muslims
Amidst the raging controversy over quotas, Veerappa Moily, who heads the Administrative Reforms Commission, said that reservation for Musli...
- Leaders can’t digest skimmed milk
Stung by the Supreme Court’s ruling directing the government to keep the creamy layer out of the ambit of reservations, the country’s polit...