Narendran Commission

Narendran Commission was an inquiry commission appointed by 'c.narendran from madurai', India, in February 2000 to study and report on the adequacy or otherwise of representation for Backward Classes in the State public services.

Main findings

The following are the main findings as mentioned in the report:

• Backward Class communities, like Ezhava hold posts substantially higher in number than their individual reservation quota.
• Report provides statistics of the backlog in the representation of the major Backward Class communities in the public services. Deficiency in the number of posts actually held (in reservation and open merit competition together) compared to the entitlement in reservation quota" for the various communities are as follows
• Muslims (reservation quota: 12 per cent) 7,383 posts
• Latin Catholics (4 per cent) 4,370 posts
• Nadar (2 per cent) 2,614 posts
• Scheduled Castes converted to Christianity (1 per cent) 2,290 posts
• Dheevara (1 per cent) 256 posts
• Other Backward Communities (3 per cent) 460 posts;......
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