{"id":3322,"date":"2017-08-31T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:55:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:55:53","slug":"obc-quota-benefit-now-in-psus-psbs-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/obc-quota-benefit-now-in-psus-psbs-too\/","title":{"rendered":"OBC quota benefit now in PSUs, PSBs too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nThe government today approved the norms for establishing equivalence of posts in government and public sector undertakings and public sector banks for claiming benefit of OBC reservations.<\/p>\n<p>The approval came at the meeting of the Union Cabinet. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said it addresses the issue which has been pending for nearly 24 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will ensure that the children of those serving in lower categories in PSUs and other institutions can get the benefit of OBC reservations, on a par with children of people serving in lower categories in the government,\u201d an official statement said.<\/p>\n<p>This will also prevent children of those in senior positions in such institutions \u2014 who, owing to absence of equivalence of posts, may have been treated as non- creamy layer by virtue of wrong interpretation of income standards \u2014 from cornering government posts reserved for OBCs.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet also approved the increase in the income criterion of Rs 6 lakh per annum to Rs 8 lakh for applying the creamy layer restriction throughout the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, The government today approved the norms for establishing equivalence of posts in government and public sector undertakings and public sector banks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}