After putting the admission process on hold, the Indian Institutes of Management have begun the exercise of sifting creamy layer among OBCs by asking candidates to furnish details of their status with regard to “creamy layer” in keeping with the Supreme Court directive.

The IIMs’ move comes in the wake of HRD Ministry’s directive last Sunday to all centrally-funded elite educational institutions, including IIMs and IITs, to implement the OBC reservation  without creamy layer beginning this year .

In a communication to applicants, IIM-Ahmedabad directed  them to furnish official certificates regarding their non-creamy layer status within two weeks. IIM-Bangalore has also written to all OBC candidates who were interviewed to provide details of their status. However, it said that OBC candidates who made it to the general category merit list would be offered admission regardless of their “creamy layer”status. The IIMs have put on hold their admission process seeking a communication from the HRD Ministry.