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The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu authorities to look into a ailment that persons belonging to 2 subsects of the Mutharaiyar assemblage from definite districts had been wrongly issued Most Backward Class (MBC) certificates alternatively of Denotified Community (DNC) certificates.
Justice P.T. Asha directed the Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes, and Denotified Communities section caput to dispose of a practice made successful this respect by Mutharaiyar Ezhuchi Sangam, led by its president S. Panneerselvam, a doc by profession, wrong 12 weeks.
The petitioner’s counsel Chevanan Mohan brought to the announcement of the tribunal that the Mutharaiyar assemblage had respective subsects, specified arsenic Ambalakarar, Valaiyar, Muthuraja, Muthiriyar, Servai, and truthful on. Some of thsese subsects had been classified arsenic MBC successful immoderate districts and arsenic DNC successful others.
Referring to the Makkal Sasanam (People’s Charter) 2025-26 released by the State government, helium pointed retired that Ambalakarar assemblage per se had been listed nether the MBC class without mentioning the districts successful which radical of specified assemblage would beryllium considered arsenic belonging to MBC.
However, successful the aforesaid charter, Ambalakarar of Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai, Tiruvarur, Tiruchi, Karur, Perambalur, Ariyalur, and Pudukottai districts had been classified nether the DNC category. This disorder had led to issuance of MBC certificates adjacent for Ambalakarar successful these 9 districts, helium claimed.
Similarly, the subsect Valaiyar had been listed nether the MBC class without immoderate notation of the districts but the aforesaid subsect from Madurai, Theni, Dindigul, Tiruchi, Karur, Perambalur, Ariyalur, Pudukottai, Coimbatore, Erode, and Tiruppur districts had been classified nether the DNC category.
However, without notation to the favoritism betwixt the subsects residing successful antithetic districts, gross officials had been mechanically issuing MBC certificates to each Ambalakarars and Valaiyars for the past respective years, starring to sedate societal injustice having been done to them, the counsel contended.
He said, the petitioner organisation had made respective representations successful this respect to the State authorities but lamented that nary enactment was taken.
