Vanniyars stand to lose more with internal reservation

With the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) reviving its long-standing demand for a 20% quota for the Vanniyars, there’s a view within the State forms that the group stands to lose more than what it has now if the idea of internal reservation is applied primarily based on the group’s proportionate energy to the State’s total inhabitants.

As the Vanniyars come beneath the Most Backward Classes (MBCs) and the De-notified Communities, each of that are earmarked 20% reservation, they’re entitled to compete throughout the phase for training and employment. But if an unique quota is given to them, they’ll have to prohibit themselves to the lesser phase. This is as a result of the Vanniyars represent round 13% of the inhabitants, an official mentioned, citing the Ambasankar Commission’s report of 1985.

Barring the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the unreserved communities, the Backward Classes (BCs) and the MBCs account for 78% of the inhabitants. The BCs and the MBCs are accommodated throughout the 50% quota. Proportionately, the Vanniyars’ share will come down to 8.33%.

“When the community can now compete within the 20% quota for MBCs, why should it lower its eligibility by pitching in for internal reservation?” requested the official. It was for that reason that Christians, 10 years in the past, received the federal government to withdraw its determination to give them a 3.5% unique quota throughout the BC fold, preferring as an alternative to be handled as a part of the general BC’s share of 26.5%.

But protagonists of the thought of internal reservation say their demand is “reasonable” because the Vanniyars haven’t benefited a lot from the 20% quota for the MBCs within the final 30-odd years. PMK spokesperson K. Balu desires the federal government to make public the info on the recruitment of the Vanniyars to the State authorities providers all these years. “This will bring to the fore how we are inadequately represented in the government services,” he mentioned, including that the precept of elasticity in reservation might be utilized to the group, as was finished for the Arundathiyars, for overcoming the problem of limiting the eligibility.

C. N. Ramamurthy, founder-president of the Vanniyar Federation and the petitioner in a case on internal reservation on the Madras High Court, mentioned the State Backward Classes Commission, after being requested by the federal government to research the problem in March 2012 within the mild of his petition, had refused to share with him its findings on the bottom that they had been “confidential”.

Asked concerning the Commission’s advice, the official confirms that there was a divided opinion throughout the panel on the internal reservation for Vanniyars. As for the federal government’s transfer to set up a physique for compiling information on the caste breakdown, the official identified that although the Karnataka authorities had commissioned a socio-economic survey or caste census in April 2015, it was but to launch the info.