TAMIL Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has accorded his assent to a Bill to provide 10.5 per cent internal quota to the Vanniyakula Kshatriya community within the reservation for Most Backward Classes (MBC) and Denotified Communities (DC). The Governor on Friday gave his assent to Tamil Nadu Special Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutions and of Appointments of Posts in Services under the State within the Reservation for the MBC and DC, Act, 2021. The notification was published in the Gazette of the State Government the same day.

 

The law has created two more groups one covering 25 MBCs and 68 DCs and another covering the remaining 22 MBCs. The law provides internal reservation for three categories - 10.5 pc quota for MBC (Vanniyakula Kshatriyas), 7 per cent for DC and the MBC communities having similarity with DC and 2.5 per cent the other MBC not included in the above category.

 

Vanniyakula Kshatriya includes Vanniyar, Vanniya, Vannia Gounder, Gounder, Palli, Agnikula Kshatriya and Padayachi. The law permits the Government to appoint an officer not below the rank of district backward class officer to be the competent authority for carrying out the provisions and the rules made in respect of private educational institutions. The law was made on the recommendation of the chairman of the TN Backward Classes commission on the demand made by various communities to provide internal quota.