The Supreme Court has struck down the 10.5% reservation provided to Vanniyars, a Most Backward Community(MBC) in Tamil Nadu, in government jobs and admission to educational institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n The Tamil Nadu Assembly had passed a Special Reservation Act of 2021 that divided the existing 20% quota for the \u2018Most Backward Classes\/Denotified Communities\u2019 category into three parts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Among them, the largest share of 10.5% was specified as exclusive to the Vanniyar community and its various sub-castes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This act was challenged before the Madras High Court. The court declared that the Act was unconstitutional<\/a><\/span> because of a lack of quantifiable data to measure the \u201cextreme backwardness\u201d of the Vanniyars. This High Court verdict was then challenged before the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n The Supreme Court upheld the Madras High Court verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n The court said that:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 1)<\/b><\/span> The caste alone cannot be the exclusive basis to grant quota within a reserved category,\u00a0<\/span>2) <\/b>The allotment of 10.5% reservation to a single community from total MBC quota of 20% in the State leaving only 9.5% to other communities in the MBC category was without “substantial basis”. It violates the fundamental rights of equality, non-discrimination and equal opportunity of other MBCs.<\/span><\/p>\n 3)<\/b> \u200b\u200bThere was no assessment or analysis done prior to the 2021 Act to back the\u00a0<\/span>claim that the Vanniyars were relatively more backward than the other MBCs.<\/span><\/p>\n 4) <\/b>The court further found that the 2021 Act was only ancillary legislation to the 1994 Act <\/span>and was not in conflict with the latter. (<\/span>Ancillary legislation means legislation that is supportive of principal legislation).<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> Reservation in Tamil Nadu comprises 69% under a 1994 Act protected under the <\/span>Ninth\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Schedule of the Constitution.<\/span><\/a> Of the 69%, backward classes, including Christians and\u00a0<\/span>Muslims, get 30%; MBCs get 20%;\u00a0 Scheduled Castes 18%; and Scheduled Tribes 1%.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Supreme Court strikes down Tamil Nadu\u2019s 10.5% Vanniyar quota<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>The Hindu<\/b> on 1st April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Supreme Court has struck down the 10.5% reservation provided to Vanniyars, a Most Backward Community(MBC) in Tamil Nadu, in government jobs and admission to educational institutions. Background\u00a0 The Tamil Nadu Assembly had passed a Special Reservation Act of 2021 that divided the existing 20% quota for the \u2018Most Backward Classes\/Denotified… Continue reading Supreme Court strikes down Tamil Nadu\u2019s 10.5% Vanniyar quota<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-177153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700792176,"cached_date":1704913664},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Background\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n
What has the Supreme Court said? <\/b><\/h5>\n