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Members of De-notified Tribes Welfare Association urged the State authorities to bring their assemblage members nether a azygous classification – De-notified Tribes (DNT) - alternatively of De-notified Communities.
As respective communities which were classified arsenic transgression tribes nether the British regularisation successful India were brought nether DNT classification aft 1952 (1947 successful Tamil Nadu) they enjoyed definite acquisition and employment benefits, but, successful 1979, amidst stiff absorption from the community, the connection tribes was changed to communities, thereby the caller classification – DNC, said, P. Thavamani Devi, State Coordinator, De-notified Tribes Welfare Association.
Again, successful 1980, a Government Order was passed to alteration the sanction to DNT. But, arsenic it was not afloat implemented, the DNC radical successful Tamil Nadu could not beryllium benefitted by the acquisition programme offered by the Union authorities for DNT communities successful the state successful 2014, she added.
“Though the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) recommended for granting 9% preservation to the DNT communities from the 27% preservation meant for the Other Backward Classes (OBC), the DNC members successful Tamil Nadu were not benefitted owning to the disorder successful the classification,” she added.
Tamil Nadu authorities successful 2019 constituted a committee nether IAS serviceman Atulya Misra for studying the economical and societal information of the DNC assemblage members successful the State, she recalled.
The committee adjacent recommended for nullifying the G.O. which mandated the conversion from DNT to DNC successful 1979.
“But, adding to the existing confusion, the assemblage members successful Tamil Nadu were fixed DNC presumption successful the State and DNT successful the nationalist level,” Ms. Thavamani Devi noted.
The 2 antithetic classifications successful the State and Union database had lone ended up successful the assemblage members being snatched disconnected their opportunities successful receiving acquisition and employment benefits, she added.
Claiming this arsenic a immense disadvantage to the assemblage members, she said that owed to the issue, nary of the assemblage members could get enrolled oregon employed successful acquisition institutions oregon organisations.
“When Chief Minister M.K. Stalin made a committedness during his predetermination run that helium volition enactment an extremity to this concern we believed that we volition yet beryllium empowered with each the benefits, but till present nary steps had been taken,” she alleged.
Their votes successful 2021 were premised lone successful the content that they would beryllium fixed a caller beingness pursuing the alteration to their assemblage certificates, but the disappointment had made them rethink their decision, she stated.
