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The draft policy document accessed by TNM has suggested several measures for the welfare of LGBTQIA+ communities, with specific focus on transgender and intersex persons.

The community has long been forced into low-paying work based on gender and caste identities. But activists are now demanding reservations in government jobs.

Tamil Nadu govt has proposed to create a unified digital scholarship disbursal system that uses several state databases. Here's a closer look

In the 2014 NALSA judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that transgender persons have a right to reservation, owing to the fact that they “are a socially and educationally backward class”. What has happened so far?

SC or ST trans and intersex persons would then be considered under the OBC list, which is contrary to the reservation scheme under the Constitution

Its social justice politics eased the way to hiking quotas for EBCs and BCs. And when SC ceiling came, the Tamil Nadu govt led by Jayalalithaa was quick to procure Ninth Schedule protection.

TNM spoke to teachers and activists working in tribal welfare schools, and while they had conflicting views on the merger, they all agreed that Tamil Nadu’s welfare schools need major reforms.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday told the Assembly that the state Backward Class commission has sought more time to submit report on 10.5 per cent internal reservations to the Vanniyar community.The state government had not, ...

Former Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati said that rival political parties hatch conspiracies to weaken the BSP.

The UT health department had stated on March 11 that Pondicherry reported 79 virus cases