Tamil Nadu parties are quietly dropping or softening several earlier poll promises as they reshape their election manifestos to match chang...

Tamil Nadu elections are shaped by dominant caste blocs, including Vanniyars in the north, Gounders in the west, and Thevars in the south. ...

India's Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana has empowered countless micro-enterprises. This scheme provides collateral-free credit, fostering growt...

The Centre has decided not to raise the ‘creamy layer’ income ceiling for OBC reservations, currently set at Rs 8 lakh per year, despite th...

A parliamentary committee is revisiting the inclusion of "salary" in determining the "creamy layer" for OBC reservations, despite addressin...

Maharashtra's cabinet is seeking to increase the non-creamy layer income limit to Rs 15 lakh per annum from Rs 8 lakh. This move aims to br...

Congress member Dean Kuriakose had sought to know if there was any proposal to increase the OBC non-creamy layer annual income limit from t...

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...

This income ceiling to weed out “creamy layer” has been a bone of contention for a long time.

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

The Centre on May 2013 had raised the income limit for OBC's Creamy Layer to Rs 6 lakh per annum.

27 per cent of seats in government jobs and educational institutions are reserved for OBCs provided the annual income of the family is up t...

DoPT excluded these qualified candidates by taking into account the income of their parents from salary as income from other sources of wea...

If accepted, the recommendation to relax the salary bar for OBC reservations would bring more backward aspirants for central jobs and educa...

UPA govt's decision to raise income ceiling for creamy layer from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh per annum, to accommodate more OBCs for reserv...

If occupation defines a person's social class, then the OBCs are not much behind the general population.