Recommendations to increase the income limit for determining the creamy layer between the OSC was powered by the parliamentary Committee on the Blaho Citizen in several reports presented in Lok Sabha 1 April 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI
The parliamentary committee, which on Tuesday (April 1, 2025) focuses on the well -being of other backward classes, said it was a “hour” to increase the 8 GBP income limit for eliminating the “cream layer” within the Civil Code.
In the reports submitted on Tuesday at Lok Sabha, headed by BJP Ganesh Singh, he recommended the Union’s government to take the necessary steps to “determine a significantly higher income” after consulting all parties that “more and more back -class people can accept the benefits of reservation policy and various temporary government schemes”.
After the judgment of Indra Sawhney’s court in 1992, the government introduced the concept of the “cream layer” that excluded “socially advanced persons/sections” within the OBC to use reservation or other government benefits. Other criteria for determining the cream layer are also the one that sets the limit of family income.
This income limit was set at 1 lakh in 1993 and has since increased from time to time, most recently in 2017, when the Lakh ₹ 8 limit was set.
Recommendations on increasing the income limit for determining the creamy layer between the Civil Code were powered by the Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of the ObC in several reports that they submitted on Tuesday in Lok SABHA, which concerned schemes and reservations for the municipalities – which fall into the interest of the staff and training departments and the Ministry of Social Justice.
In a report on the OCC representation, the DPT also recommended that the government ensured that the data on the implementation of central work quotas were included in the annual reports and recorded on the website. He noted that DPT created a portal – a representation of reserved categories in posts and services (RRCP) – for data collection and monitoring.
However, data on this portal are only available to the ministries and DTT, noted the committee and added that the opening of this public would bring transparency. This is coming after Hind announced in December 2024 that the annual report Dopt 2023-24 first missed the data on job quotas in at least two decades. At that time Dopt said he was missing because the data cannot be compiled in time.
Various calculations
In the report, the committee pointed out that the limit of the intake of the cream layer for the Civil Code is calculated differently by different governments of state governments (with regard to what sources of income they must be included). The panel recommended the Center to speak to states “in proper seriousness to monitor the uniform formula to the extent possible”.
She also demanded the government to quickly create the equivalence of functions in autonomous bodies, organizations, institutions with positions in medium and state government that because of such a long introduction of equivalence, the allocated services were not assigned ”.
In a report on the programs for the Civil Procedure of the Social Justice, the Committee also recommended the “appropriate increase” within the income limit of 2.5 GBP Lakh, which is currently set for scholarships for students of the Civil Code. While the panel asked the government to double the revenue limit for recipients before and post matrices for the Civil Procedure, it applied for a “appropriate increase” within the revenue for the recipients of top scholarships for school and university education.
The panel also said it was mysterious, why the pre -measured scholarship for the OSC was offered only for class IX and X, which recommends that the scholarship starts to cover students from class V. It also asked the government to increase the number of slots (currently 15,000) as part of the top scholarship for Civil Education, EBC, DNT “.
Published – April 1 2025 22:41 is
