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Creamy layer to be kept out of OBC reservation

	April 21, 2008

The Manmohan Singh Government has decided to exclude the socially and economically advanced among the other backward classes from the ambit of 27 per cent quota in higher educational institutions. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs on April 17. The CCPA approved the Ministry of Human Resource Development move to exclude the creamy layer from the benefit, as ordered by the Supreme Court. Central educational institutes, including Indian Instit ...