{"id":32054,"date":"2017-10-04T02:53:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T02:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=32054"},"modified":"2017-10-04T02:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T02:53:22","slug":"obc-creamy-layer-income-limit-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/obc-creamy-layer-income-limit-increased\/","title":{"rendered":"OBC Creamy layer Income Limit Increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently, the &#8216;creamy layer&#8217; ceiling for OBC reservation has been raised by Central Government to- <\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 6 lakhs<br \/>\n(b) 7.5 lakhs<br \/>\n(c) 8 lakhs<br \/>\n(d) 9 lakhs<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)<br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On August 23rd, 2017, the Central Government raised the &#8216;creamy layer&#8217; ceiling for OBC reservation from the existing Rs 6 lakh to 8 lakh rupees per annum.<\/li>\n<li>For the first time in 1993, the ceiling limit for the OBC category was fixed at Rs 1 lakh.<\/li>\n<li>This increase has been occurred for the fourth time.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier, it was raised thrice to Rs 2.5 lakh in 2004, Rs 4.5 lakh in 2008 and Rs 6 lakh in 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Union cabinet approved a proposal for setting up of a Commission under article 340 of the Constitution to examine the issue of sub-categorization of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).<\/li>\n<li>The Commission shall submit its report within 12 weeks from the date of appointment of the Chairperson of the Commission.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The proposed terms of references of the Commission are as follows:<\/strong><br \/>\n(i) To examine the extent of inequitable distribution of benefits of reservation among the castes\/ communities included in the broad category of OBCs, with reference to the OBCs included in the Central list.<br \/>\n(ii) To work out the mechanism, criteria, norms and parameters, in a scientific approach, for sub-categorization within such OBCs, and,<br \/>\n(iii) To take up the exercise of identifying the respective castes\/communities\/ sub-castes\/ synonyms in the Central List of OBCs and classifying them into their respective sub-categories.<\/li>\n<li>It is noteworthy that Nine States of the country viz., Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, Karnataka, Haryana, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have already carried out sub-categorization of Other Backward Classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/>\nReference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170173<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/obc-creamy-layer-limit-increased-from-rs-6-lakh-to-rs-8-lakh-4810714\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/obc-creamy-layer-limit-increased-from-rs-6-lakh-to-rs-8-lakh-4810714\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/creamy-layer-income-cap-for-obcs-raised-to-rs-8l-per-annum-says-arun-jaitley\/story-Otgdlzn41jjDBrW41MncrK.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/creamy-layer-income-cap-for-obcs-raised-to-rs-8l-per-annum-says-arun-jaitley\/story-Otgdlzn41jjDBrW41MncrK.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshillongtimes.com\/2017\/08\/24\/obc-creamy-layer-bar-raised-to-rs-8-lakh-p-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.theshillongtimes.com\/2017\/08\/24\/obc-creamy-layer-bar-raised-to-rs-8-lakh-p-a\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/india\/govt-raises-obc-creamy-layer-ceiling-panel-to-work-out-sub-categorisation-2035539.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/india\/govt-raises-obc-creamy-layer-ceiling-panel-to-work-out-sub-categorisation-2035539.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently, the &#8216;creamy layer&#8217; ceiling for OBC reservation has been raised by Central Government to- (a) 6 lakhs (b) 7.5 lakhs (c) 8 lakhs (d) 9 lakhs Answer: (c) Related Facts: On August 23rd, 2017, the Central Government raised the &#8216;creamy layer&#8217; ceiling for OBC reservation from the existing Rs 6 lakh to 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-32054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}