<Tr> <Td> Professional class and those engaged in Trade and Industry </Td> <Td> If a person has a high paying job such as physician, lawyer, chartered accountant, income tax consultant, financial or management consultant, dental surgeon, engineer, architect, computer specialist, film artist or other film professional, author, playwright, sports person, sports professional, media professional or any other vocations of like status . If the husband holds one of the above jobs and the wife doesn't then the husband's income will be taken into consideration and if the wife holds one of the above jobs then the wife's income will be taken into consideration. The income of the family as a whole will be taken into account because the whole point of the reservation system is to raise the social status of the people that belong to the SC's, ST's and OBCs and if a family's income is high already it is considered that it raises their social status as well . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Property owners - agricultural, plantations (coffee, tea, rubber, etc .), vacant land and / or buildings in urban areas </Td> <Td> Sons and daughters of those who have irrigated land area which is equal to or more than 85% of the statutory ceiling area will be excluded from reservation . They would only be under reservation if the land is exclusively unirrigated . Those with vacant buildings can use them for residential, industrial or commercial purposes, hence they are not covered under reservations . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Creamy layer </Td> <Td> Son (s) / daughter (s) of those who earn ₹ 8 lakh (₹ 800,000) or more annually for three consecutive years are excluded from reservation . </Td> </Tr> <P> The term creamy layer was first coined in 1975 in the State of Kerala vs N.M. Thomas case when a judge said that the "benefits of the reservation shall be snatched away by the top creamy layer of the backward class, thus leaving the weakest among the weak and leaving the fortunate layers to consume the whole cake". The 1992 Indra Sawhney vs Union of India judgement laid down the limits of the state's powers: it upheld the ceiling of 50 per cent quotas, emphasised the concept of "social backwardness", and prescribed 11 indicators to ascertain backwardness . The judgement also established the concept of qualitative exclusion, such as "creamy layer". The creamy layer applies only to OBCs . The creamy layer criteria was introduced at Rs 1 lakh in 1993, and revised to Rs 2.5 lakh in 2004, Rs 4.5 lakh in 2008 and Rs 6 lakh in 2013, but now the ceiling has been raised to ₹ 8 lakh (in Sep., 2017). In October 2015, the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) proposed that a person belonging to OBC with an annual family income of up to Rs 15 lakh should be considered as minimum ceiling for OBC . The NCBC also recommended sub-division of OBCs into "backward", "more backward" and "extremely backward" groups and to divide the 27 per cent quota amongst them in proportion to their population, to ensure that stronger OBCs do not corner the quota benefits . </P>

Reservation of 18 percent seats for depressed classes