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Members of the Kattu Naicker assemblage signifier a dharna astatine the District Collector bureau successful Ramanathapuram connected Monday. | Photo Credit: L. BALACHANDAR
Demanding caste certificates, implicit 2,000 Kattu Naicker assemblage members connected Monday staged a dharna extracurricular the District Collector bureau from Ramanathapuram district.
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 successful the district. Among them, 546 students are enrolled successful assorted schools and colleges, the protesters said.
On Monday, much 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 Scheduled Tribe (ST) caste certificates.
Veerapandi, territory president of Kattu Naicken Tribal Welfare Association, said, “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.”
Despite years of protesting, they had not been granted the certificates. Whenever they applied for caste certificates with the Revenue Department, officials asked for their parents’ caste certificates, said Satish a subordinate of the community.
He asked how the certificates could 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,“ said.
District Revenue Officer Sankaranarayanan and Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) Habib Rahman assured the protesters that steps would beryllium taken soon to contented the certificates. However, the protesters refused to disperse, insisting on direct assurance from the Collector.
Later, Collector Simranjeet Singh Kahlon held talks with the leaders of the association.
He assured them that the RDO would behaviour door-to-door enquiry wrong 1 week and instrumentality steps to contented the caste certificates.
The protesters past dispersed. Over a 100 constabulary unit were deployed astatine the Collectorate during the protest, which coincided with the play nationalist grievance time meeting. The question of authoritative vehicles was affected and the objection continued for implicit 4 hours successful the morning.
