TN Govt ordered that De-notified Communities and De-notified Tribes be issued a single certificate as against separate certificates.
The People from these communities who were affected by the Criminal Tribes Act during the British rule in the pre-Independence era were classified under the ‘Denotified Communities’.
They are given a 20% reservation among the most backward communities.
68 communities getting the State government reservation were classified as the Denotified Communities.
But for availing of Union government benefits, they were classified as Denotified Tribes.