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Tamil Nadu’s Arunthathiyar quota
August 7 , 2024
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- The Supreme Court has backed the constitutional validity of a Tamil Nadu law that offered preferential treatment among the Scheduled Castes (SCs) to socially and educationally backward Arunthathiyars.
- The Court held that sub-categorisation within a class was a Constitutional requirement to secure substantive equality.
- The Tamil Nadu State Legislature had enacted the Tamil Nadu Arunthathiyars Reservation Act, 2009.
- It aims to provide the Arunthathiyars reservation in appointments or posts in State services on a preferential basis among the SCs.
- The Act has defined Arunthathiyars to include the castes — Arunthathiyar, Chakkiliyan, Madari, Madiga, Pagadi, Thoti, and Adi Andhra — from the list of 76 SCs notified by the President under Article 341 of the Constitution.
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