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Creamy layer to be excluded from ambit of OBC quotas
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NewsByte on 18 April, 2008 06:27:00
 
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, "Whatever the Supreme Court has
suggested, we will try and implement it."
Mukherjee said that the government is quite clear and it wanted to make a
distinction between opportunities of higher education and those available for
job reservation.
"The creamy layer concept was intended for job reservation. The 93rd amendment
is for educational opportunities to be open to all OBCs, including those
belonging to the creamy layer," the minister said, adding that now the apex
court has ruled that the creamy layer among OBCs was not entitled to the benefit
of quotas in higher educational institutions.
The decision is expected to help the HRD ministry to issue a communication to
higher educational institutions, including the IIMs, which had earlier decided
to put on hold the admission process.
The Supreme Court had last week upheld the controversial law providing 27 per
cent quota for OBCs in IITs, IIMs and other Central educational institutions but
excluded the creamy layer from its ambit.(PTI)