(a) the details regarding consideration of Creamy Layer status in the country;
(b) whether the Government has fixed any upper income limit specified for the applicants
belonging to Backward Communities for the appointment in Central Government services; and
(c) if so, the details thereof?
MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT (SHRI D. NAPOLEON)
(a) to (c): The Supreme Court in its judgment delivered on 16.11.1992 in the Indra Sawhney case upheld 27%
reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central Govt. Services subject to exclusion of socially advanced
persons/sections (Creamy Layer).
The existing income criteria to exclude socially advanced persons/sections
(Creamy Layer) from Other Backward Classes is Rs.4.5 lacs per annum.