The Supreme Court has ruled that income cannot be the sole criterion to decide the creamy layer among Other Backward Classes (OBCs). The apex court has delivered a ...

The bench also explained that the creamy layer rule was introduced to keep reservation benefits focused on the most disadvantaged groups within the OBC category (Image: PTI) The Supreme Court observed ...

Settling the decades-long confusion over how to calculate wealth or income to determine the creamy layer status of OBC candidates for reservation purposes, the Supreme Court ruled this week that this ...

India's Supreme Court has clarified, on Thursday, the boundaries of the creamy layer doctrine as it applies to Other Backward Classes, ruling that parental income alone cannot serve as the sole ...

Applying for the *Other Backward Classes* (OBC) non-creamy layer certificate in India can be a complex process ...

The ‘creamy layer’ concept applies to certain categories of other backward classes candidates whose families have acquired social and economic privileges. Such candidates are excluded from ...