Tamil medium students to get 20% state govt jobs

Updated on: Sunday, September 12, 2010

Tamil Nadu has announced the decree of giving preference for people who have studied in Tamil medium in state government services.

Henceforth, such candidates would be allocated 20% of all jobs in the government's direct recruitment by the government.

Such preference for candidates whose education was in the Tamil medium will be given in jobs in government, state legislature, local authorities, corporations and companies owned or controlled by the state government.

Persons having studied in Tamil medium would also be free to compete for other vacancies over and above the 20% quota. In the absence of adequate number of claimants for the 20% seats reserved for Tamil medium candidates, the unfilled posts would be open for candidates who had pursued their studies in other mediums of instruction.

Such a step was necessitated because those who study in Tamil medium have very little chance at present in landing a central government or private sector job, the ordinance said. Their chance of getting a job in other state governments is also bleak.

The ordinance also said it did not contravene the existing reservation policy of the state government. Nor did it transgress the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act, 1993, which seeks to provide reservation for these classes, both in education and jobs.

Tamil medium students to get 20% state govt jobs

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