The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) is learnt to have moved a Cabinet note asking for exclusion of the creamy layer from the ambit of reservation for other backward classes (OBCs) in central educational institutions.
The note is aimed at making certain amendments to the Central Educational Institutions (reservation in admission) Act, 2006, which provides for 27 per cent OBC quota in central educational institutes.
The ministry seems to be aiming at carrying forward whatever the Supreme Court provided in its last week