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Reservation of seats in Urban Bodies
January 22 , 2022
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- In a significant decision, the Tamil Nadu Government issued orders to reserve the Chennai Mayor post for a woman belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC).
- It also reserved the Mayor posts in Tambaram and Avadi Municipal Corporations for SC (Women) and SC (General) respectively.
- This will be the first time a woman from the SC community will be elected as Mayor of the Greater Chennai Corporation when “indirect elections” are held for the urban local bodies this year.
- All three municipal corporations in and around the State capital would be held by members of the SC community - two of them women.
- The Mayor posts in nine Corporations - Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Dindigul, Erode, Kancheepuram, Karur, Madurai, Sivakasi, and Vellore have been reserved for Women (General) candidates.
- The State government also reserved the post of chairperson of 10 municipalities to SC (General) candidates, 10 Municipalities to SC (Women), one Municipality to a woman from the Scheduled Tribes (ST), and 58 others to Women (General).
- It also reserved 288 chairperson posts in town panchayats - two for ST (Women), one for ST (General), 43 for SC (Women), 42 for SC (General), and 200 for Women (General).
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