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OBC income ceiling hike proposed

NEW DELHI: The Social Justice and Empowerment ministry has forwarded a proposal for increasing the ceiling on annual income for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) families from Rs.2.5 lakh to Rs.4.5 lakh to the cabinet secretariat for placing it before the cabinet. The proposal, when approved, would help more students from OBC to avail 27 per cent reservation in higher educational institutions under the control of the central government.

Andhra Pradesh MP V. Hanumantha Rao told The Hindu that a senior official from the ministry had informed him following his representation to the Minister concerned, Ms. Meira Kumar, for revising the income ceiling to decide the creamy layer.

Earlier in a letter he had pointed out that as many as 432 seats, which were originally reserved for OBC students in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country this year, could not be filled up due to the application of creamy layer concept.

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