Centre says creamy layer will stay; petition in SC soon

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New Delhi, Apr 11 (UNI) The Centre, which is facing Supreme Court stay on implementation of OBC reservation in central educational institutions, today made it clear that it did not intend to exclude the creamy layer from the 27 per cent quota, asserting there was all-party consensus over the issue.

At the end of a two-day state education ministers conference, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh told a news conference that the government would file a petition in the court in a day or two to get the stay vacated.

''All parties have by consensus decided that the creamy layer is not to be excluded from the benefit of 27 per cent OBC reservation for admission to central educational institutions, then how is it possible for me to remove it?, '' he said.

He was asked whether the government was thinking to exclude the creamy layer in the light of the Supreme Court expressing some reservations against it.

The court, in an interim order recently, had asked the government not to implement the OBC reservationon in IITs and IIMs and AIIMS, expressing its reservations regarding the 1931 Census being made as the base for determining OBC population, and also on inclusion of the creamy layer in the ambit of the benefit.

''I hope the admissions will not remain on hold and the Supreme Court will show some consideration for the OBC students who had qualified for admission,'' he said.

Mr Singh said the Government was examining all legal options to resolve the quota issue at the earliest.

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