The Supreme Court will review quota benefits. The court wants to ensure the most backward communities benefit. A petition was filed by memb...

On Monday, a five-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court upheld the 103rd constitutional amendment by a majority of 3:2.

The social justice and empowerment ministry will begin consultations and examine the issue of increasing the ceiling limit from the present...

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

Responding to another question, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Rattan Lal Kataria said a committee was constituted to...

The government will increase the income ceiling limit for creamy layer of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) very soon, social justice and empow...

The move is likely to have a direct bearing on the Bihar assembly elections, where OBCs comprise 41% of the population. BJP has been trying...

A group of ministers headed by defence minister Rajnath Singh has been tasked to upwardly revise the gross annual income limit of Rs 8 lakh...

The government has given expert panel 15 days to submit report on this contentious issue.

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

Clauses 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...

FM Jaitley said the initiative, coupled with other moves, like subcategorisation of OBCs and hike in salary bar, were aimed at better targe...

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...

UPA govt will come up with a revised income criteria applicable for the ‘creamy layer’ OBC categories to adjust more of such categories wit...

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...

Amidst the raging controversy over quotas, Veerappa Moily, who heads the Administrative Reforms Commission, said that reservation for Musli...

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...