Recently the Narikoravan and Kurivikkaran communities were transferred from the Most Backward Communities (MBC) category to the list of Scheduled Tribes (ST).
Now the Tamil Nadu government has framed guidelines to streamline the issuance of community certificates to these two communities.
They divided into three categories:
Those who do not have any community certificate,
Those who have MBC certificate and
Those who have certificates with some complaints or related documents are missing in the taluk office concerned.