NEW DELHI: Within the wake of vociferous calls for from MPs in a gathering of a parliamentary committee that “discrimination” in figuring out the “creamy layer” for OBC reservation be settled, the panel has known as for an additional dialogue this month. However, it now emerges, the Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of OBCs had probed the problem intimately 5 years in the past and dominated in opposition to the inclusion of “salary” in calculating “income”. By the way, the panel then too was headed by its current chairperson — BJP MP Ganesh Singh.Sources stated the committee has summoned the DoPT on Nov 28, when the problem of factoring in “salary” within the “income” of backward candidates with PSU background qualifying UPSC exams can be thought of.Within the committee’s assembly on Wednesday, the MPs led by DMK’s TR Baalu, Congress’ Manickam Tagore, SP’s Ramashankar Rajbhar and a senior BJP member slammed what they known as was violation of the 1993 OM that lays down that “income” is not going to embrace “salary” and “agricultural income”. In an argument that has gone on for a couple of years, govt has been together with “salary” for candidates with dad and mom in PSUs and so forth, on grounds that there isn’t a “equivalence of posts” drawn with govt posts like Group A, B, C, D.On Wednesday, the MPs additionally questioned govt about non-revision of revenue ceiling for OBC reservation. They lamented it was final executed in 2017 and is caught at Rs 8 lakh.
