New Delhi, Feb 18: Government is in favour of including all deserving backward classes in the OBC list, social justice and empowerment minister Satyanarayan Jatiya said today.
Inaugurating a two-day conference of chairpersons and members of the state backward classes commissions here, he said government was seized of the demand for raising the income ceiling for determining the creamy layer, which had been fixed ten years ago.
Jatiya said his ministry has taken several initiatives to empower backward classes and help them join the mainstream. These include promotion of education and economic uplift through micro finance schemes at very low interest rates, he added.
Bureau Report