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Build the SC, ST or OBC caste certificate document list, check the religion and migration bars, and test the creamy layer income limit.
This checklist runs the eligibility bars on a caste certificate application before it lists the paperwork, because some of those bars no file can overcome. Paragraph 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 limits Scheduled Caste status to persons professing the Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist religion, while the Scheduled Tribes Order carries no such condition. Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entries are notified state by state and do not travel when a family migrates. For an OBC non-creamy-layer certificate the ₹8,00,000 income ceiling applies over three consecutive years, with salary and agricultural income left out of the computation. Once those are checked, the tool builds the document list for your circumstances.
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Religion, migration, marriage and creamy layer are tested first, with the authority for each.
The religion condition applies to Scheduled Castes only, a distinction most guides skip.
Warns that a state-format OBC certificate will not serve for a central government post.
No. Paragraph 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 provides that a person professing a religion other than Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist is not deemed a member of a Scheduled Caste. Sikhs were brought within it by amendment in 1956 and Buddhists in 1990. Scheduled Tribe status carries no religion condition at all.
Not for SC and ST. Those entries are notified for a named state or area, and the Supreme Court held in Marri Chandra Shekhar Rao in 1990 and in the Action Committee case in 1994 that a person notified in one state cannot claim that status on migrating to another. You have to check whether the caste appears in the list for the state where you now apply.
No. Following Sunita Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh (2018), caste is determined by birth and is not acquired by marriage. A married woman's certificate is issued on her father's caste, and the marriage certificate in the file explains only the change of surname or address.
Gross annual income of ₹8,00,000 or above for three consecutive years, the ceiling set by the DoPT order of 13 September 2017. Income from salary and from agricultural land is excluded from that figure, so the test amount is often much lower than the family's actual earnings. Income is only one of six routes into the creamy layer — service in a constitutional post, Group A or Group B, or armed forces rank can place a family there whatever the income.