Centre moves SC for 2-year window to implement OBC creamy layer verdict

NEW DELHI: Facing the task of implementing Supreme Court's ruling on calculating creamy layer criteria for OBC reservation from the retrospective date of 2012, Centre pleaded with the court to make the enforcement of the verdict prospective and grant it two years' time to implement it.The court had in March held that the income of parents could not be the sole criterion to determine the creamy layer of a candidate for exclusion from OBC reservation, and status and category of a parent's job had to be considered with an 'income/wealth test' as an additional criterion.