27 percent quota to OBCs

• The Supreme Court on 10th April 2008 upheld the Constitution amendment law providing for 27 per cent quota for OBCs in IITs, IIMs and other Central educational institutions but excluded the creamy layer from the benefit.


• A five-judge Constitution bench by a unanimous verdict cleared the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 providing for the quota.
  The bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan excluded the creamy layer among the OBCs from the quota benefit.


• In effect, the reservation policy can be put in place for the 2008-09 academic session


• Besides the Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan , the Bench comprised Justices Arijit Pasayat, C K Thakker, R V Raveendran and Dalveer Bhandari.