No amendment in income limit for identifying non-creamy layer in Other Backward Classes: Center
The Center said it is not considering a review of the income limit to identify the creamy layer among other threatened classes, which have the right to a reservation of 27 percent in government jobs and higher education.
Various parliamentarians and groups of the OBC representing the community have demanded a review of the actual limit: an annual parental income of Rs 8 lakh from sources other than salary and agriculture.
In a written response, the State Minister of Social Justice, Pratima Bhumik, told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday: “At present, there is no proposal to revise the limit on the cover of non-cremosas of OBC”.
A member of the Rajya Sabha from the Congress party YSR, V. Vijaysai Reddy, said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday that the delay in revising the limit had harmed many OBCs who deserve reservation benefits.
A government committee had suggested in 1993 that anyone who held a constitutional office or was elevated to a Class A post before the age of 40 belonged to the cream cap. Therefore, those that scored more than a certain amount would be treated as part of the creamy layer.
The income limit was 1 lakh rupees in 1996 and was revised to 2.5 lakh rupees in March 2004, to 4.5 lakh rupees in October 2008, to 6 lakh rupees in May 2013 and to 8 lakh of rupees in September 2017. The committee had recommended a review. .the roof every three years.
“The improvement is carried out to adjust the inflation once every three years. However, the existing limit for creamy cap has not been revised in the last six years”, said Reddy in Rajya Sabha.
“During this time, the inflation multiplied. “Applying the formula for three years, the review of the creamy cap formula has been delayed twice until now”.
Affirming that the “retrograde” had “denied reservations to many needy and deserving OBCs”, he said: “There exists an urgent need to revise the admission criteria”.
The Ministry of Social Justice had presented a proposal in 2020 to increase the limit from Rs 8 lakh to Rs 12 lakh, including the salary in the calculations. However, the OBC groups opposed the inclusion of wage income in the calculation of the creamy layer.
“In order to encourage the government to revise the limit of the cream cap and guarantee that the review will be completed in three years. This will guarantee a true social justice for the OBCs”, said Reddy.
