New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu Government will officially announce an ordinance within a week to provide reservation for Muslims and Christians in education and employment.
Chief Minster M Karunanidhi announced this at the Seventh International Islamic Literary Convention in Chennai on Sunday night. The state will adopt a system of quota within quota.
Tamil Nadu presently has 69 per cent reservation. Four per cent of these seats will be set aside for Muslim and Christian students.
The system is like that in Kerala and Karnataka where there's four per cent reservation within the 50 per cent reservation in education and employment.
The speakers, who included Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha Rehman Khan, wanted reservation for Muslims on the lines of that available in Kerala and Karnataka.
Karunanidhi promised quota within quota, whereby Muslims would be entitled to reservation within the existing 69 per cent quota.
Kerala and Karnataka have made four per cent reservation within the 50 per cent reservation in education and employment.
Khan said it was under his Chairmanship of the Minorities Welfare Committee in 1993 that reservation for Muslims was implemented in Karnataka.
Earlier, Karunanidhi was honoured with 'Umara Pulavar Award' comprising Rs 1 lakh cash prize and a memento.
(With agency inputs)
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