{"id":35149,"date":"2018-10-31T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35149"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:57:46","slug":"income-limit-raised-for-creamy-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/income-limit-raised-for-creamy-layer\/","title":{"rendered":"Income limit raised for creamy layer:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/creamy-layer-income-limit-raised\/article19679863.ece\">Income limit raised for creamy layer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The \u2018creamy layer\u2019 ceiling for OBC reservation has been raised to Rs. 8 lakh per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the new decision?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The decision is to raise the income limit from Rs. 6 lakh to Rs. 8 lakh per annum for determining the creamy layer among the Other Backward Classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How many times have the ceiling been raised?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1993, the limit was kept at Rs. 1 lakh. It was raised thrice \u2014 to Rs. 2.5 lakh in 2004, Rs. 4.5 lakh in 2008 and Rs. 6 lakh in 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is the purpose behind raising the ceiling?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These measures are part of the government\u2019s efforts to ensure greater social justice and inclusion for members of the Other Backward Classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Income limit raised for creamy layer: Context The \u2018creamy layer\u2019 ceiling for OBC reservation has been raised to Rs. 8 lakh per year. What is the new decision? The decision is to raise the income limit from Rs. 6 lakh to Rs. 8 lakh per annum for determining the creamy layer among the Other Backward&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/income-limit-raised-for-creamy-layer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Income limit raised for creamy layer:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704752652},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}