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Rs. 4-lakh income limit for creamy layer in A.P.

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday accepted the recommendations of the Group of Ministers (GoM) fixing an annual income ceiling of Rs. 4 lakhs to identify the creamy layer among backward classes for excluding them from the purview of reservations.

However, the decision to implement the creamy layer norm would be kept pending as the Government has written a letter to the Centre to bring in a constitutional amendment doing away with the concept of creamy layer for the purpose of reservations, official sources said.

They pointed out that the creamy layer among SCs and STs was not excluded from the reservations.

According to the sources, the Government had to fix the criteria for identifying the creamy layer since the Centre had been constantly sending reminders either to evolve its own norms or adopt those already fixed by the Union Government. The Centre had fixed Rs. 2.5 lakhs as the ceiling.

Except Andhra Pradesh, Manipur and Andamans & Nicobar Islands, administrations had not fixed the criteria for identifying the creamy layer.

Supreme Court order

The Supreme Court had directed in the Mandal Commission case that the Centre and States identify the creamy layer among BCs to exclude them from the benefits of reservations.

Further, in 1993, the Centre had issued orders enumerating persons belonging to OBC for exclusion from reservations. The State Government had requested the Andhra Pradesh Commission for Backward Classes to evolve criteria to identify creamy layer among socially and educationally backward classes.

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