TN govt notifies Vanniyar quota law after governor nod

TN govt notifies Vanniyar quota law after governor nod

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Chennai:01.03.2021 

Tamil Nadu government has notified the law mandating 10.5% internal quota for Vanniyakula Kshatriya community within the 20% reservation for Most Backward Classes (MBC) and Denotified Communities (DC) after governor Banwarilal Purohit gave his assent to a Bill for the same. The government had hurriedly introduced and passed the Bill in the assembly just half-an-hour before the Election Commission announced the poll schedule for the state and the model code of conduct came into effect on Friday.

The Bill was then sent to the governor for his assent, which the government secured the same day.

Following the nod from the governor, the state government notified the ‘Tamil Nadu Special Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutions Including Private Educational Institutions and of Appointments of Posts in Services under the State within the Reservation for the MBC and DC, Act, 2021’ in an extraordinary gazette. Vanniyakula Kshatriya community includes Vanniyar, Vanniya, Vannia Gounder, Gounder, Padayachi, Palli and Agnikula Kshatriya castes.

The law provides internal reservation for three categories — 10.5% quota for MBC (Vanniyakula Kshatriyas), 7% for DC and the MBC Communities having similarity with DC and 2.5% for the other MBC not included in the above category.

This follows the recommendation of the chairman of the TN Backward Classes Commission on the demand made by various communities to provide internal quota. PMK, a key ally of AIADMK, had held a series of protests since December, demanding exclusive quota for Vanniyars.