Income cap for OBCs, EWS same, but components vary
New Delhi:27.10.2021
The ₹8-lakh income ceiling for OBC ‘creamy layer’ as well as the cap to qualify as economically weaker sections (EWS) for forward caste quotas is same on the face of it, yet different in substance by way of what sources of income are included in the calculations . But, while projecting this substantive distinction between the two caps may help the government duck the charge that “unequals are being made equals”, the BJP regime is actively working to bring them at par.
The court’s query to the Centre on how it arrived at ₹8 lakh for EWS quota has prised open a tricky debate, the primary being if gradually, a parity is being drawn between the OBC category, which has social backwardness as a parameter, and the EWS that comprises the forward communities with only poverty as criteria. TNN
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