Income limit for Creamy Layer – Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment The erstwhile Ministry of Welfare had constituted the Expert Committee and on its basis Department of Personnel and Training has issued Office Memorandum Vide No.36033/3/2004-Estt. (Res) dated 9th March, 2004 on the subject “Revision of Income criteria to exclude socially advanced persons/sections (Creamy Layer) from the purview of reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs)”.  In the Office Memorandum dated 08th September 1993, and for the category VI of the Schedule, the following explanations were also mentioned:- Income from salaries or agricultural land shall not be clubbed; The income criteria in terms of rupee will be modified taking into account the change in its value every three years. If the situation, however, so demands, the interregnum may be less. In para 27 of the Report, the Expert Committee of 1993 had observed the following: “In addition to the above, we have to say that the...

Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Reservation Provisions for SC/ST/OBC Reservation in admission of students belonging to Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in Central Educational Institutions established, maintained or aided by the Central Government is enforced through the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admissions) Act, 2006 as amended from time to time. At present there is no proposal under consideration of Government to enact legislation for implementing reservation in services under the Central Government and its Public Sector Undertakings. The policy of reservation in services is administered through executive instructions. The Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Indira Sawhney vs. Union of India (W.P. No. 930 of 1990) has held that these instructions have the force of law. This information was given by Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Vijay Sampla in a written reply in Lo...

No.12017/02/2018-SCD(R.L.Cell) Government of India Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Department of Social Justice and Empowerment Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi New Delhi, dated: 15.03.2018 To, The Chief Secretaries to all the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations. Subject: Need to avoid the nomenclature “Dalit” for the members belonging to Scheduled Castes. Sir, I am directed to refer to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) letter No. BC 12025/44/80-SC&BCD.I/IV, dated 10.02.1982, addressed to all the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations in which a request was made to issue instructions to the authorities empowered to issue the Scheduled Castes certificates, not to insert the word ‘Harijin’ in the Scheduled Caste certificates, but to mention only the caste to which the person belongs and which has been recognised as Scheduled Caste under the Presidential Orders. Subsequently, the Ministry of Welfare (now Social Justice and Empowerment), vide, letter No. 1...