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Give an account of the problems relating to the ‘creamy layer’.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 10 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

The 'creamy layer' is the advanced section within a backward class, excluded from reservation so that preference reaches those it was designed for. The phrase came from V. R. Krishna Iyer in State of Kerala v. N. M. Thomas (1976) and became doctrine in Indra Sawhney (1992). It is the state's concession that a caste…

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