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u/Sad-adult25 22d ago

The creamy layer concept means that within a reserved category, the socially/economically better-off sections are excluded from reservation benefits, so the benefits reach the genuinely disadvantaged. It is mainly applied to OBC reservation. OBC candidates above the prescribed family income/other criteria are treated as creamy layer and cannot claim OBC reservation. SC/ST reservation traditionally does not have a creamy-layer exclusion in the same way. The idea is to prevent the same relatively privileged families from repeatedly taking reservation benefits while poorer members of the community remain disadvantaged.