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Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
04-August-2016 15:41 IST
OBC Candidates declared ineligible in UPSC Exam
The National Commission for Backward Classes has requested not to compare pay scales of posts held by the parents of candidates who are employed in PSUs, Banks, Insurance Organizations, Universities, Under etc., Subordinate Judiciary and under Private employment, State Governments Organizations etc. for determining the Non Creamy Layer Status of OBC candidates recommended by the UPSC on the basis of Civil Services Examination – 2015 as salary income cannot be clubbed with the income from other sources. In case of recommendation of name of a candidate by UPSC for service allocation, the candidate is considered for allocation to one of those services by the Government for which he has indicated his preference subject to fulfillment of other conditions like Medical fitness, eligibility for availing reservation etc. as per Civil Services Examination Rules and extant instructions on the subject. Keeping in view the extant instructions the claim of candidates as OBC (non creamy layer) to avail benefit of Reservation under OBC Category were considered by the Government and candidates found eligible have been allocated to various services.
This was stated by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Dr. T. Subbarami Reddy & Smt. Ambika Soni in the Rajya Sabha today.
