A day after the Jat and Khap leaders protested outside the residence of Chief
Minister Manohar lal on the issue of Jat reservation, Haryana Government on Wednesday notified the criteria for “creamy layer”.
“Haryana Government has notified the criteria for exclusion of the creamy layer (those earning more than Rs 6 lakh per annum) from the Backward Classes as per the schedule appended to the Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in Services and Admission in Educational Institutional) Act 2016,” said an official spokesman.
He said that the children of persons having gross annual income of up to Rs 3 lakh would first of all get the benefit of reservation in services and admission in educational institutions.
The left-out quota would go to such class of Backward Classes of citizens as earn more than Rs 3 lakh but up to Rs 6 lakh per annum. The sections of the Backward Classes earning above Rs 6 lakh per annum would be considered as creamy layer under Section 5 of the Act, the spokesman added.
Observing that Haryana Government had still not issued notification for taking out creamy layer from quota granted to Jats and five other communities, Punjab and Haryana High Court had on Tuesday granted it time till August 24 to place the notification on record.
Following this, several Jat leaders who had come to the High Court for the case hearing expressed their displeasure over State’s Government apathy and protested outside CM’s residence demanding notification prescribing income limit under creamy layer for availing reservation under BC (C) category.
They had also warned that if the state continued to take the reservation case with lackadaisical attitude, the Jats and Khap representatives would start a statewide agitation.
Meanwhile, the leaders reached the CM’s residence on Wednesday also and were handed over the copy of the notification. After the February’s Jat agitation, which had paralysed normal life in Haryana and affected Delhi and other neighbouring states too, the State Government had brought in a law to provide reservation for Jats and five other communities under a newly carved Backward Classes (C) category.