Date:27/10/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/10/27/stories/2006102719720300.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam

SC/ST staff oppose `creamy layer'

Special Correspondent

Rally planned in New Delhi on Dec. 3

Judgment would result in denial of benefits: employees' federation

Class 4 SC/ST workers would be pushed into creamy layer

VISAKHAPATNAM: The creamy layer concept pronounced by the Supreme Court in its judgment on the reservations for SCs and STs would result in denial of the benefit to some employees, felt the All India Defence SC, ST Employees Federation.

There were some class IV employees among the SCs and STs drawing more than Rs.2.5 lakhs a year and they would be pushed into the creamy layer, said the all-India general secretary of the federation and its Southern region in-charge M. Narasinga Rao at a press conference here on Wednesday.

The federation, along with the All-India Confederation of SC and ST Organisations, is planning a programme to put pressure on the Government to ensure that all SC and ST employees received the benefit of reservation.

A rally would be held in New Delhi on December 3 in this connection.

Restricting the reservation benefit would not help the SCs and STs who faced thousands of years of oppression.