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Tamil Nadu reservation in 2024
April 7 , 2024
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- The Tamil Nadu government has told the Madras High Court that 89% of the State’s population is already eligible for the 69% reservation provided in the education and public employment.
- Therefore, the State cannot be compelled to implement the additional 10% reservation for others under the category of Economically Weaker Sections (EWS).
- The litigant had sought a direction to the State government to implement the 10% EWS quota for admission to all higher educational institutions in the State.
- 100% door-to-door enumeration of castes and communities in the State was carried out in 1983, following the directions issued by the Supreme Court on October 14, 1982.
- Ambasankar Commission (1983) had revealed that the proportion of socially and educationally backward classes in the State, including the most backward classes and de-notified communities, was 68% of the total populace.
- The 2011 decennial census also found the population of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in Tami Nadu to be 20% and 1.1%, respectively.
- The first Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Commission, also known as Sattanathan Commission, had submitted its report in 1970.
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