Controversy around Pooja Khedkar's certificate emphasizes delays in updating the 'OBC creamy layer' ceiling from Rs 8 lakh to Rs 15 lakh. I...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi accuses the Congress of planning to redistribute wealth based on its manifesto promise for a "nation-wide soci...

NCBC, which acquired a constitutional status in 2018, has found anomalies in implementation of reservation policy in four opposition-ruled ...

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

Solvency ratio defines how good or bad an insurance company’s financial situation is on defined solvency norms.

The court, examining a challenge to 10% EWS reservation in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical students, has been critic...

BJP ally Apna Dal has said a caste census was needed to base affirmative action for backward communities on their numerical strength and ec...

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

Parliamentary standing on welfare of backward classes which is chaired by BJP MP Ganesh Singh in its report on 'Rationalisation of Creamy L...

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...

Proposing a major change in the concept of ‘creamy layer’ for OBCs, the government may rule that ‘salary’ be considered a part of ‘gross in...

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

After the SC refused to recognise exclusive economic criterion, many high courts reiterated this view. Haryana’s 10% reservation for EBCs w...

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...

SC Sinha, ED, OBC in an interview with ET Now talks about the public sector banks and the expected growth of OBC in this year.

Delhi government’s order that proposes to penalise officials found guilty of sitting on files has implemented the order as part of the Serv...

The Economic Times carried a series of stories in the first week of April on income disparities across different religious groups in India.