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Hundreds of Other Backward Class (OBC) students successful Kerala who whitethorn suffice for non-creamy furniture (NCL) presumption nether a caller Supreme Court ruling hazard losing preservation benefits successful JEE Main and Advanced arsenic they had applied nether the wide class earlier the tribunal clarified the criteria for NCL eligibility.
In a March 11 judgment, the Supreme Court held that parental income from wage and agriculture cannot beryllium the sole ground for determining creamy furniture status. The Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and R. Mahadevan said creamy furniture exclusion was based connected societal presumption alternatively than income alone.
The ruling has prompted demands for a revision of class declarations and JEE ranks prepared by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
In Kerala, gross authorities person been denying NCL certificates to OBC students whose parents gain much than ₹8 lakh annually done wage oregon agriculture, forcing them to use for JEE and NEET nether the wide category. Government employees, however, are assessed chiefly connected the ground of work presumption and rank, with wage income not attracting the aforesaid disqualification.
Students and parents reason that the Supreme Court ruling makes galore of those denied NCL certificates eligible for OBC reservation.
“We privation the NTA to springiness eligible students an accidental to assertion OBC preservation successful enactment with the Supreme Court ruling,” said Amrit Christopher, a trader from Wayanad. He said a radical of parents was preparing to determination the tribunal seeking revision of class presumption for affected candidates.
The contented has besides highlighted inconsistencies successful the issuance of NCL certificates. While tahsildars contented certificates for Central authorities admissions and recruitment, interpretations of creamy furniture rules vary.
Government employees beneath specified ranks are often granted NCL presumption irrespective of salary, portion private-sector employees with akin incomes are denied certificates solely due to the fact that their net transcend ₹8 lakh.
‘Unequal treatment’
“This has resulted successful unequal attraction of likewise placed families,” said Capt. Abdul Hameed, world manager of Universal Institute, Kottakkal. He said galore students had mislaid OBC preservation benefits successful JEE and NEET due to the fact that wage and cultivation income continued to beryllium treated arsenic disqualifying factors.
According to Rangarajan R., erstwhile IAS serviceman and writer of ‘Polity Simplified’, income from wage and agriculture is excluded portion assessing whether a household crosses the prescribed income threshold.
Parents and students privation the NTA to reconsider the class presumption of candidates who applied nether the wide class earlier the March 11 ruling. They reason that eligible students should not beryllium denied OBC preservation due to the fact that of an earlier mentation of the NCL criteria.
