Creamy layer income limit to be hiked to ₹8 lakh
The creamy layer ceiling for OBC and SBC reservation will be increased to ₹ 8 lakh from the existing ₹ 2.5 lakh per year. Energy Minister BD Kalla said the Union government Sep 13, 2017 had increased the limit to ₹8 lakh, on the same lines the Rajasthan government will also increase the limit to ₹ 8 lakh.
It is a serious issue and all the parties want to resolve it and give 5% reservation to the community. Why again and again we are misguiding them.
GULAB KATARIA, Leader of Oppn
I assure that the government has brought the bill with seriousness, responsibility, and after holding discussions with experts and legal department.
SACHIN PILOT, deputy CM
by Justice Sunil Kumar Garg, and the State Backward Classes Commission have recommended that five castes – Gujar/ Gurjar, Banjara/baldiya/labana, Gadiya Lohar/ Gadoloiya, Raika/ Rebari/ Debasi, Gadariya/ Gadri/ Gayari – should be categorized as more backward classes.
He said that the State Back- ward Classes Commission has unequivocally concluded in its reports that special circumstances envisaged in the Indra Sawhny’s case do exist in the state and there are reasonable grounds to exceed the limit of 50% to ensure adequate representation of backward classes in admissions and appointments.
Shobhit Tiwari, who challenged the 2017 law hiking OBC reservation to 26%, said the new bill is a contempt of court. “I will advise my clients – Dr Gurvinder Singh and Samata Andolan – to move a contempt petition in the Rajasthan high court,” he said.
Former high court judge Justice Pana Chand Jain said the new law will also fall flat in judiciary. “The 50% ceiling for reservation is almost like a Constitutional provision and any attempt to change that, even by putting the law in the Ninth Schedule, will not be validated,” he said.
Gujjar leader Vijay Bainsla said he had not received any information about the bill from the government. “Col (Kirori Singh) Bainsla has requested experts from the communities included in the bill to study the new law so that this time it is legally foolproof,” he said. He did not say anything on calling off the agitation.