India, May 20 -- The state government is likely to recommend a raise in the Other Backward Classes (OBC) creamy layer from the current Rs.eight lakh per annum to Rs.15 lakh per annum. In effect, this means that an OBC person earning up to Rs.1.25 lakh per month will be considered underprivileged and entitled to reservations in education and jobs.

State revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, who heads the cabinet sub-committee on OBCs, announced this in a meeting on Tuesday. The sub-committee made the recommendation on the basis of the long-standing demand by OBCs to revise the income limit for reservation eligibility (the 'creamy layer', by a Supreme Court ruling, cannot avail of reservations). Bawankule said he would soon meet chief...