T.N. to constitute Commission for collecting caste-wise data
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Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Tuesday introduced {that a} Commission can be arrange to conduct a survey for collecting caste-wise data in Tamil Nadu.
Mr. Palaniswami’s announcement got here a couple of hours after a delegation of PMK leaders, led by Anbumani Ramadoss, met him on the Secretariat on a day when the PMK launched an agitation for 20% reservation for Vanniyars in authorities jobs and better schooling.
In the morning, protests by PMK cadre paralysed vehicular motion for a couple of hours on GST Road in Chennai and a few highways in northern Tamil Nadu. The cadre additionally engaged in stone pelting, bringing an Express practice to a halt in a Chennai suburb.
According to the Chief Minister, the proposed Commission would study the methodologies being adopted for collecting caste-wise data, and primarily based on that, it could conduct a survey to accumulate such data and submit a report to the federal government.
He identified that numerous political events and social organisations had demanded a caste survey at completely different closing dates. Moreover, as a case relating to the 69% reservation in Tamil Nadu was pending within the Supreme Court, such data was wanted for the case, the Chief Minister contended.
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