Editing Other Backward Class (section)

===Supreme Court verdict===
On 10 April 2008, the Supreme Court of India upheld the government's initiative of 27% OBC quotas in government-funded institutions. The Court has categorically reiterated its prior stand that those considered part of the "[[Creamy layer]]" should be excluded by government-funded institutions and by private institutions from the scope of the reservation policy. The verdict produced mixed reactions from supporting and opposing quarters.

Several criteria to identify the portion of the population comprising the "creamy layer" have been recommended, including the following:<ref name=telegraphcutoff>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080411/jsp/frontpage/story_9123781.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412105903/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080411/jsp/frontpage/story_9123781.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 April 2008|title=New Cutoff for OBCs|date=11 April 2008|access-date=2008-04-11|work=The Telegraph|location=Calcutta, India}}</ref>
* Children of those with family income above {{INR}} 250,000 a year, and then {{INR}} 450,000 a year {{as of|lc=yes|2008|October}} and now {{INR}} 800,000 a year, should be considered creamy layer, and excluded from the reservation quota.
* Children of doctors, engineers, chartered accountants, actors, consultants, media professionals, writers, bureaucrats, defence officers of colonel and equivalent rank or higher, high court and Supreme Court judges, and all central and state government Class A and B officials should be excluded.
* The Court has requested Parliament to exclude the children of MPs and MLAs as well.