New criteria for creamy layer in backward classes notified
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, December 14
The Haryana Government has notified the new criteria for the exclusion of persons from the creamy layer in the backward classes by amending relevant sections of the Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in Services and Admission in Educational Institutions) Act, 2016.
A notification issued by the Haryana Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Welfare Department to this effect has been sent to all Administrative Secretaries of the state, heads of departments, managing directors and chief administrators of all boards, corporations and institutions.
According to the notification, persons appointed to constitutional posts/constitutional personalities such as the President of India, Vice President, Judges of the Supreme Court and high courts, chairman and members of the Union Public Service Commission and of state Public Service Commission, Chief Election Commissioner and Comptroller and Auditor General of India, persons holding similar constitutional posts, and sons and daughters of MPs and MLAs will not be able to claim the benefit of reservation.
Similarly, these instructions will be applicable to the sons and daughters of Class A and Class B/Class-I and Class-II officers of the all India, Central and state services, whose parents are serving in these categories; mutatis mutandis to officers holding equivalent or comparable basis in these institutions such as banks, insurance organisations etc.
Apart from this, the sons and daughters of the Armed Forces and paramilitary forces (persons holding civil posts are not included), parents of whom are on the rank of Major or above in the Army or equivalent in the Navy and Air Force or paramilitary forces will not be able to claim the benefit of reservation.
Besides, the sons and daughters of persons belonging to a family (father, mother and minor children) which owns land more than the land permissible under the Haryana Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972, and sons and daughters of parents having gross annual income of Rs 6 lakh or above or possessing wealth above Rs 1 crore for a period of past three consecutive years will not also be able to claim the benefit of reservation.
