ValkyaEditorial

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Landmark JudgmentSupreme Court of India

Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India: the Constitution Bench on 27% OBC reservation in central higher education, the 93rd Amendment and the creamy-layer extension

On 10 April 2008, a five-judge Constitution Bench upheld the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act 2006 — providing 27% OBC reservation in centrally-funded higher education institutions including the IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and central universities — together with the 93rd Constitutional Amendment that inserted Article 15(5). The Bench extended the Indra Sawhney creamy-layer doctrine to OBC reservation in higher education, preserved the 50% reservation ceiling and required periodic review and quantifiable data. The validity of Article 15(5) for private unaided institutions was left for Pramati (2014) to settle.

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