OBC creamy layer income-test issue stuck between Ministries, says House panel chief
A parliamentary panel chief reports that the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Social Justice are deadlocked over implementing Supreme Court directives regarding the OBC creamy layer income test. The dispute centers on how salary income is calculated for candidates whose parents work in non-government sectors.
Why it matters
This administrative impasse affects the eligibility and social mobility of OBC candidates seeking government employment, highlighting bureaucratic friction in policy implementation.
The issue concerning the two components of OBC creamy layer exclusion — income/wealth test and equivalence of posts — appears to be stuck between the Ministry of Personnel, Pensions, and Public Grievances and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, said BJP MP and chief of the House panel on welfare of OBCs Ganesh Singh.
He said ideally the Social Justice Ministry should formulate the policy based on the Supreme Court’s reading of the income test in March and then bring it to the Cabinet. “That has not happened yet,” Mr. Singh said.
The judgment had ruled that the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) was practising “hostile discrimination” in applying the income test differently to OBC candidates with parents in government service and OBC candidates with parents in jobs where the equivalence with government posts had not been established.
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