Bishnupriya Manipuri Creamy Layer Excluded: Supreme Court

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of India on April 10, 2008 upheld the law

that provides reservation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs)in Central educational institutions. However, SC also ruled the exclusion of creamy layer among the OBCs from the quota benefits. The decision had a direct impact on the future of the community Bishnupriya Manipuri since it comes under the bracket of OBC.

Now sons and daughters of the MPs and MLAs of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community will not be entitled to get the benefits that they had been enjoying till date. Ironically, till date there has not been a single MP from the community. While there is one Bishnupriya Manipuri MLA Kartik Sena Sinha in the present Legislative Assembly of Assam.

The Supreme Court also added that periodic revision of the reservation should be done since it cannot be in perpetuity. Moreover, the court also said that the central government can decide when to implement the quota this year itself.

On this issue the Court had in March ruled that the 1931 census could not be a determinative factor for identifying the OBCs for the purpose of providing reservation. However, the recent judgement now adhere the government to draw a list of OBCs with respect to its social and economical status.

In a similar judgement on April 23, 2007 the Supreme Court refused to vacate the stay on 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in elite educational institutions like IIMs and IITs.

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