THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The recommendation of the National Backward Classes Commission to raise the income ceiling from Rs 4.5 lakh to Rs 9 lakh for awarding reservation benefits has drawn flak from the Nair Service Society (NSS). The NSS has observed that the move raises serious questions about the findings of the Supreme Court on real backwardness and the necessity to determine creamy layer so as to exclude the rich class among the backwards and award the benefits to the needy poor among them. The recommendation is curious as it had come at a time when a case against the raising of ceiling limit of creamy layer from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh is already pending before the Supreme Court, the NSS said. NSS general secretary G Sukumaran Nair termed the recommendations as ‘’opportunistic’’ and against social justice, while it is banking on the premise of empowering one and all among the backward classes in the country. Those who are having an income of Rs 75,000 per month will come under the ambit of the reservation. And it will only benefit the rich segments among the backward classes, he said. He said that no governments which ruled the country or states or political parties had ever thought of social justice for the economically backward among those branded as forward castes, who were denied reservation benefits. The Major General (rtd) S R Sinhu Commission, constituted in 2006 and which presented its report last year, has recommended that those forward caste members coming below the IT ceiling limit should be considered as equivalent to OBCs for awarding reservation for education and jobs, but nothing has materialised, so far.
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