New Delhi, May 4
With the exclusion of the creamy layer in reservation for OBCs in higher institutes of learning turning into a controversy, the issue will come up for close scrutiny in the Lok Sabha tomorrow.
The House will discuss the situation arising out of the Supreme Court decision regarding the exclusion.
The discussion is being held at a time when several constituents of the ruling UPA are of the opinion that the creamy layer concept itself needed to be scrapped to give a fair deal to the backward community.
As last month the apex court gave its verdict in the ticklish issue, the government has since decided to go ahead with the implementation in the higher educational institutions, including IITs and IIMs, from the current academic session. Parties like DMK, a major constituent of the Congress-led coalition, want a fair and just review of the parameters for getting the reservation benefit.
Another ally, PMK, wants a Constitutional amendment to ensure that creamy layer was not excluded from the purview of reservation and demands that this should be put in the Ninth Schedule so that it could not be questioned. Some of the other parties are also in favour of such a course of action.
OBC MPs had earlier termed the creamy layer criterion put forward by the Supreme Court as a “conspiracy”.
The MPs had also demanded reservation in the judiciary and implementation of the Nachiappan Committee report on the issue.
Instead of economic criterion to decide on the creamy layer, the government should use social and educational criteria, the MPs said.
Mahadeorao Shivankar and Santosh Gangwar (both BJP), Devendra Prasad Yadav (RJD), M Ramadoss (PMK) and Ramjilal Suman (SP) have given notices for the special discussion.
— PTI
