Centre opposes pleas for income-based creamy layer in SC/ST quotas
The Indian Union government has formally opposed petitions in the Supreme Court seeking to introduce a 'creamy layer' exclusion for SC/ST reservation categories. The government argues that existing welfare schemes already include means tests and that any change to reservation policy requires a comprehensive empirical study.
Opposing a batch of petitions in the Supreme Court of India, which seek a creamy-layer exclusion within the reserved categories of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) as in the Other Backwards Classes (OBC), the Union government argued judicial precedents had clarified that the “principles of creamy layer do not apply to SCs and STs”.
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