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Preferential Reservation for SC(A) Candidates
May 15 , 2026
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- The Tamil Nadu government issued fresh instructions on implementing reservation for Arunthathiyars under the Tamil Nadu Arunthathiyars (Special Reservation) Act, 2009.
- The directions were issued to all government-run, State-aided, and private educational institutions after a judgment of the Madras High Court.
- Institutions were instructed to fill all open, general, and unreserved seats first purely on merit. Arunthathiyar candidates are also eligible to compete in these categories.
- While filling the 18% Scheduled Caste (SC) quota, institutions must strictly follow the horizontal rotation system prescribed in April 2009 through G.O. (Government Order) No. 50.
- Under this rotation system, points 2, 32, and 66 are first offered to SC(A) Arunthathiyar candidates.
- The Tamil Nadu Arunthathiyars (Special Reservation of seats in Educational Institutions, including Private Educational Institutions and of appointments or posts in the services under the State within the Reservation for the Scheduled Castes) Act, 2009 provides 16% preferential reservation for Arunthathiyars within the overall 18% SC reservation.
- The reservation applies to admissions in educational institutions and appointments or posts under the State government.
- In the remaining SC general seats, all Scheduled Caste candidates, including Arunthathiyars, must compete based on inter-se merit.
- Selection of meritorious Arunthathiyar candidates in SC general seats should not reduce or affect the 16% SC(A) preferential sub-quota under any circumstance.
- The State government also clarified through Government Orders that if SC(A) preferential seats remain vacant, they may later be filled by other Scheduled Caste candidates on merit.
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