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Demanding Scheduled Tribes assemblage certificates, the members of the Kattu Naicken community erected achromatic flags astatine their houses to show their determination to boycott the upcoming Assembly elections.
Veerapandi, president of the Ramanathapuram Kattu Naicken Community Association, said, close to 8,500 radical belonging to the community unrecorded successful Anna Nagar, M.G.R. Nagar, Sakkarakottai, Thirupullani, Devipattinam, Thiruvadanai, Thondi, Thiruppalaikudi, R.S. Mangalam, and Paramakudi in the district.
Among the full population, much than 500 students are enrolled successful assorted schools and colleges, helium added.
Recently, more than 2,000 members of the community, including implicit 200 students successful their schoolhouse uniform, gathered astatine the Collectorate and staged a sit-in protestation demanding the issuance of ST certificates.
“Our radical person been surviving without caste certificates for implicit 50 years. Because of this, our children are struggling and incapable to prosecute higher acquisition oregon use for authorities jobs,” said Mr. Veerapandi
Years of demonstrations person failed to unafraid their documentation. The Revenue Department has consistently stalled their applications for request of parental caste certificates, a information the assemblage has agelong struggled to meet, he stated.
He asked how the certificates could be produced if they were ne'er issued successful the first place.
“Due to such clerical hurdles, we are unable to get the ST certificates. The authorities indispensable instrumentality contiguous enactment to supply them to our community, “ he said.
The community people who person been into antithetic menial works person not managed to unrecorded a decent life for generations.
Though the assemblage members without due documentation successful authorities records person been fixed Scheduled Castes assemblage certificates, Mr. Veerapandi, said, the community’s root was not properly recognised resulting them being categorised under assorted SC castes.
“What we inquire for our children’s aboriginal is not excessively much. If the authorities wills, it can initiate the process immediately, survey our people, transverse cheque with the aged authorities records, and supply america ST certificates,” he observed.
Consecutive governments person lacked the resoluteness to assistance those successful need, efficaciously shelving the community’s demands for years connected end, helium noted.
“Party representatives contacted america and assured america of resolving the contented and asked america to discontinue their protest. But unless we get solid assurance from the political parties, we volition proceed to hoist these achromatic flags and maintain our boycott of the upcoming elections,” helium affirmed.
