Delay In Revision Of ‘Creamy Layer' Income Ceiling Makes Section Of OBCs Restive

As the Centre continues to overshoot the deadline for the periodic increase in the income ceiling for the OBC “creamy layer”, uncertainty is only growing over when will the long-pending proposal see the light of the day — the reason being that the government doesn’t plan to delink the income hike from the larger proposal to revise the criteria for “creamy layer”, which has triggered a controversy resulting in the holdup.

- Subodh.Ghildiyal

New Delhi:

As is done every three years, the social justice ministry has proposed to hike from Rs 8 lakh to Rs 12 lakh the ceiling for “creamy layer” — the economically better off among the backwards who are ineligible for 27% Mandal reservations. The due date is already past by three months as the last revision was cleared by the Cabinet on August 23, 2017.