The creamy layer among the OBCs has not been excluded from the bill cleared by the union cabinet on Monday night.
OBC creamy layer will get the benefits too.
NEW DELHI: It is now clear that the rich among the OBCs will also benefit from the quota bill. The creamy layer among the OBCs has not been excluded from the bill cleared by the union cabinet on Monday night.
But the final view on the controversial issue has been left to the standing committee of Parliament. The government also wants to study the Supreme Court directive on creamy layer in the wake of the Mandal Commission report earlier.
"The Cabinet decision on reservation for backward castes and SCs and STs in elite Central educational institutions and universities and not to introduce the 'creamy layer' concept was unanimous," said steel minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday.
Doubts, however, still persist if the quota bill being introduced in Parliament either on Thursday or Friday will become law before the next April-May academic session.
Paswan said accepting the creamy layer concept in the new proposal for reservations would lead to seats in the elite institutions like the IITs and IIMs not getting filled up because 90 per cent of the admissions from these categories of people now belonged to the economically well-to-do.
Some ministers also argued that anybody these days could get a bogus certificate to say that they do not belong to the creamy layer.
The UPA government has decided to lob the bill to the Parliament standing committee after its introduction in the next three days.
The standing committee is not time-bound and it could take three months or even one year to submit its report.
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