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PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss connected Friday urged the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam-led authorities to guarantee that the Governor’s code successful the upcoming Budget league makes a notation astir its volition to behaviour caste-based survey.
Speaking astatine a multi-party and assemblage leaders’ gathering successful Chennai connected the request to behaviour a caste-based survey to support the 69% preservation for OBCs, SCs and STs successful Tamil Nadu, helium said, “In Backward Classes category, determination are 141 communities, and wrong the Most Backward Classes category, determination are 115 communities. Within SCs and STs, determination are 76 communities and 36 communities. We person to recognize the inequalities wrong these categories. When the Chief Minister came to my house, I told him that lone erstwhile we recognize the presumption of 8 crore people, we tin devise schemes. Chief Minister besides shared our sentiment. Reservation is conscionable 1 portion of societal justice, but determination are truthful galore different aspects. In Telangana, the State authorities asked 74-75 questions – religion, caste, acquisition qualification, employment, cultivation onshore ownership....we tin supply truthful galore schemes.”
He recalled that the AIADMK authorities successful 1994 managed to bring astir a law amendment and placed the 69% preservation nether the Ninth Schedule to accord it ineligible protection.
“While courts mostly cannot interfere with thing placed nether the Ninth Schedule, the Supreme Court successful 2010 raised the question arsenic to wherefore Tamil Nadu unsocial enjoys a 69% preservation erstwhile the preservation bounds successful each different States stands astatine 50%. They stated that if a caste-based census is conducted successful Tamil Nadu wrong a twelvemonth and the information is submitted to the court, they would reappraisal it and widen the reservation. We indispensable behaviour a caste-based census successful our State, taxable the due information to the court, and support our 69% reservation,” helium said.
A solution passed astatine the gathering urged the State authorities to behaviour a “Social Justice Survey, successful the signifier of a caste-based colonisation census, to support the 69% preservation successful Tamil Nadu and to instrumentality societal justness schemes for the Backward, Most Backward, Minority, Scheduled Caste, and Scheduled Tribe communities nether The Collection of Statistics Act, 2008.”
