It was last revised in , from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 8 lakh per annum. However, the Parliamentary panel, chaired by BJP MP Ganesh Singh, recommended excluding the salary and agricultural revenue while calculating the annual income. Stalin highlighted that reservations were not about economic inequality but about social disadvantage. It is because of this, he wrote, that the economic factor never found a mention in our Constitution when it came to reservations.
Former Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswamy, too, had argued that if salary and agricultural income of parents are considered as overall income of parents, it would deprive many deserving candidates of the OBC status and deny them reservation to government jobs and welfare schemed under the Union government.
Skip to main content. TNM Staff Follow thenewsminute. This marks the third time in as many years that the central government has brought legislation to effectively rollback a decision of the Supreme Court relating to lower castes.
In , the central government brought a bill to undo an apex court decision diluting some key provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Prevention of Atrocities Act. The Supreme Court later upheld the amendments passed by Parliament. In , months before the national elections, the government brought an ordinance to revert to an old system of allotting reserved positions in government educational institutions after the Supreme Court upheld an Allahabad high court order scrapping the earlier roster system.
In both cases, the judicial decisions had touched off widespread protests. The official quoted above said the Cabinet decision meant that Parliament now has powers to make changes to the central OBC list. The new amendment will insert a new clause called A 3 which will authorise states to maintain their own lists.
The ruling on depriving states of the power to identify SEBCs came by a majority of Justices Bhushan and Nazeer said that states could still have their own list of SEBCs -- a view overruled by the majority that held state governments must rely on the Centre to include or exclude any community for granting reservation to SEBCs.
Both the Centre and states urged the court to lend credence to the parliamentary select committee report of and a statement of Union minister Thawarchand Gehlot on the floor of Parliament in August that the amendments did not affect the rights of the state governments to notify backward classes for reservation. On May 13, the Centre filed a review petition in the top court and contended that the May 5 judgment required a relook because there were errors apparent on the face of the record.
The review petition was dismissed on July 1. Minister of social justice and empowerment Virendra Kumar told the Rajya Sabha last month that the government was in consultation with legal experts and the Ministry of Law and examining ways to protect the power of the states in determining the State list of OBCs. Caste is also a relational category which means that it is state specific.
State-specific categories should apply only for state jobs. He also said that the constitutional status will ensure that their backward status will get legitimacy. JK Bajaj, who is a member of the OBC sub-categorisation commission, said that further clarity was needed on which lists of castes will be considered in order to prepare a sub-categorised list free of anomalies and repetitions.
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