DMK President M Karunanidhi today expressed "some satisfaction" over the Centre enhancing the ceiling for applying the 'creamy layer' restriction on "socially advanced persons".
The income criteria had been changed from Rs 4.5 lakh per annum to Rs six lakh by the Union Cabinet on Thursday.
Karunanidhi said the National Commission for Backward Classes had recommended an income criteria of Rs nine lakh for rural areas and Rs 12 lakh for urban beneficiaries even as he had earlier written to Centre seeking that it be changed from Rs 4.5 lakh to Rs nine lakh.
"But the Union Cabinet has not accepted the Commission's recommendation and its decision to increase the income ceiling from Rs 4.5 lakh to Rs six lakh does not give full satisfaction. However, having been someone who had struggled for this for a long time, it gives me some satisfaction," Karunanidhi said in a letter to partymen.
He said DMK wanted removal of the creamy layer concept and demanded that the Centre consider implementing the commission's recommendation regarding ceiling for rural and urban areas.
The creamy layer bars the affluent among OBCs from reservation benefit on the basis of family income.
