"The Supreme Court defines "creamy layer" by quoting an office memorandum dated 8 September 1993. The term was originally introduced in the context of reservation of jobs for certain groups in 1992. The Supreme Court has said the benefit of reservation should not be given to OBC children of constitutional functionaries such as the president, judges of the Supreme Court and high courts, employees of central and state bureaucracies above a certain level, public sector employees, members of the armed forces and paramilitary personnel above the rank of colonel, lawyers, chartered accountants, doctors, financial and management consultants, engineers, film artists, and authors. OBC children belonging to any family that earns a total gross annual income (from sources other than salary and agricultural land) of Rs. 450,000, as the income ceiling for the creamy layer raised from 250,000 (US$ 5,500 in 1993 when the office memo was accepted) to 450,000 in October 2008, belong to the creamy layer and so are also excluded from being categorised as "socially and educationally backward" regardless of their social/educational backwardness."
The Government at this juncture isn't receiving much bouquets for its Special recruitment drive in which the NPSC floated advertisement for filling up of 10 E.A.C posts against ten less represented tribes. The NSF has raised its war cry which is totally justifiable and I am firmly behind it. The government at this moment is as usual under the scanner and yeah the Migraine continues for them. I don't know whether the Eastern Nagas are gullible enough to take the bait as this is a move clearly made to placate them. But this is totally unfair, if the Government wants to be totally fair on the Nagas let the reservation continue for the backward tribes but not this hasty move. I have travelled deep into the heartland of the eastern Nagas and I understand their plight. But if the government wants to be totally fair to all the Nagas, I believe the time has now come for the government to endorse the idea of introducing the creamy layer status for the backward tribes. What makes a creamy layer I have quoted above, why let the privileged few (creamy layer) get the benefit of the reservation. We go to the same school and colleges; we get the same education and exposure why let them i.e those who come under the creamy layer, get the benefit. Why not let those from the hinterland who doesn't get the proper education and exposure get the benefit? Let those who come under the creamy layer compete with us general candidates and let those who are truly backward get the benefit. Having said that, the definition of creamy layer, as I have quoted above, can differ for our government. To enforce it, it is going to be an arduous task but it’s not impossible. If the Central Government can enforce it on the OBC why can't our state government do it? The backward tribes has for years cried that everything is unfair for them and we so called advanced tribes, our time has come to cry that things are getting unfair and imbalanced.
The Government at this juncture isn't receiving much bouquets for its Special recruitment drive in which the NPSC floated advertisement for filling up of 10 E.A.C posts against ten less represented tribes. The NSF has raised its war cry which is totally justifiable and I am firmly behind it. The government at this moment is as usual under the scanner and yeah the Migraine continues for them. I don't know whether the Eastern Nagas are gullible enough to take the bait as this is a move clearly made to placate them. But this is totally unfair, if the Government wants to be totally fair on the Nagas let the reservation continue for the backward tribes but not this hasty move. I have travelled deep into the heartland of the eastern Nagas and I understand their plight. But if the government wants to be totally fair to all the Nagas, I believe the time has now come for the government to endorse the idea of introducing the creamy layer status for the backward tribes. What makes a creamy layer I have quoted above, why let the privileged few (creamy layer) get the benefit of the reservation. We go to the same school and colleges; we get the same education and exposure why let them i.e those who come under the creamy layer, get the benefit. Why not let those from the hinterland who doesn't get the proper education and exposure get the benefit? Let those who come under the creamy layer compete with us general candidates and let those who are truly backward get the benefit. Having said that, the definition of creamy layer, as I have quoted above, can differ for our government. To enforce it, it is going to be an arduous task but it’s not impossible. If the Central Government can enforce it on the OBC why can't our state government do it? The backward tribes has for years cried that everything is unfair for them and we so called advanced tribes, our time has come to cry that things are getting unfair and imbalanced.
