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Quota minus creamy layer from 2008-09

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NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) is understood to have decided to implement the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 from the coming academic year, as per Supreme Court directions.

(In its April 10 order, the court directed the government to exclude the creamy layer among the Other Backward Classes while implementing the law.)

With the CCPA arriving at this decision on Thursday, the week-long uncertainty over whether the government would file a review petition vis-À-vis exclusion of the creamy layer has ended, for now.

Awaiting directive

Though key constituents of the United Progressive Alliance were urging the government to file the review petition, the CCPA has decided to implement the order under pressure from Central educational institutions, which are seeking clarity on the issue.

Already, admissions to the postgraduate programme in the Indian Institutes of Management are on hold following the judgment and the IIMs are awaiting a directive from the government.

It appears the CCPA has accepted the Human Resource Development Ministry’s view that the court order should be implemented without further delay.

As for filing a review petition on the creamy layer issue, it has been decided that this can be addressed at a later date.

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