Creamy Layer Income Criteria for CPSE and PS
Bank Employees
Reservation
for candidates from Other Backward Classes - Revision
of Income
Criteria and determining equivalence of posts in
Central Public Sector
Enterprises (CPSEs), Public Sector Banks, Public
Financial Institutions,
etc. with Posts in Government for establishing Creamy
Layer criteria
F.No.36033/2/2018-Estt.(Res.)
Government of
India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and
Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
Establishment (Reservation-I) Section
North Block, New Delhi
Dated June 8, 2018
To
The Chief Secretaries of all States /
Union Territories
Subject:-
Reservation
for candidates from Other Backward Classes - Revision
of Income
Criteria and determining equivalence of posts in
Central Public Sector
Enterprises (CPSEs), Public Sector Banks, Public
Financial Institutions,
etc. with Posts in Government for establishing Creamy
Layer criteria -
regarding
Madam/ Sir,
I
am directed to invite
attention to this Department’s Office Memorandum No.
36012/22/93-Estt,(SCT) dated 08.09.1993 which, inter-
alia provided that
sons and daughters of persons having gross annual
income of Rs.1 lakh or
above for a period of three consecutive years would
fall within the 'creamy layer' and would not be
entitled to get the benefit of
reservation available to the Other Backward Classes.
2. The
aforesaid limit of income for determining the creamy
layer status was
subsequently raised to Rs. 2.5 lakh, Rs. 4.5 lakh Rs. 6
lakh and Rs. 8
lakh vide this Department's O.M. No. 36033/3/2004-
Estt.(Res.) dated
09.03.2004, O.M. No.36033/3/2004-Estt. (Res) dated
14.10.2008, O.M. No.
36033/1/2013-Estt.(Res.) dated 27.05.2013 and CM. No.
36033/1/2013-Estt.
(Res) dated 13.09.2017, respectively.
3.
This Department is in
receipt of references seeking clarification on the
status of equivalence
and revision of income criteria, in Central Public
Sector Enterprises
(CPSEs) and Financial Institutions with posts in
Government. In this
regard, copies of the following Office Memorandums
issued by Department
of Public Enterprises, Department of Financial Services
and this
Department are enclosed for ready reference:
i) O.M. No. 36033/1/2013-Estt.(Res.) dated 13.09.2017
of this Department regarding revision of income
criteria;
ii)
O.M. No. DPE-GM-/0020/2014-GM-FTS-1740 dated
25.10.2017 of the
Department of Public Enterprises on establishing
equivalence of posts in
Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) with Posts
in Government for
establishing Creamy Layer criteria; and
iii)
O.M. No.
19/4/2017-Welfare dated 06.12.2017 of the Department of
Financial
Services on establishing equivalence of posts in
respect of Public
Sector Banks, Public Financial Institutions, Public
Sector Insurance
Companies.
4. It is requested to please bring the
contents of the above mentioned O.M.s/ instructions to
the notice of all
concerned for information / compliance.
Yours faithfully,
sd/-
(Raju Saraswat)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
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