Communities list – G.O’s

Government Orders List of Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Denotified Communities

G.O.Ms.No.85, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 29.07.2008
Inclusion of Kurumba Gounder in MBC list.

G.O.Ms.No.96, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 08.09.2008
Inclusion of Erra Gollar, Panisaivan/ Panisivan, Latin Catholic Vannar (Kanniyakumari district), Thoraiyar (Hills), Thoraiyar (Plains) and Arayar in MBC list; and Inclusion of Pandia Vellalar, Serakula Vellalar/Sera Vellalar, and Vallanattu Chettiar in BC list.

G.O.Ms.No.97, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 11.09.2008
Reorganisation of BC list subsequent to withdrawal of separate reservation for BC-Christians, in Tamil Nadu Act 51 of 2008.

G.O.Ms.No.37, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 21.05.2009
Inclusion of Paravar converts to Christianity in MBC list.

G.O.Ms.No.98, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 05.11.2009
Inclusion of Kuruvikkars in MBC list.

G.O.Ms.No.6, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 11.1.2011
Acceptance of report justifying 69% reservation under the Tamil Nadu Act 45 of 1994.

G.O.Ms.No.50, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 11.7.2011
Inclusion of Transgender / Thirunangai in MBC list.

G.O.Ms.No.28, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 6.4.2015
Inclusion of Thiyya in BC list.

G.O.Ms.No.55, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 15.7.2020
Amendment to the district names in the BC, MBC and DNC lists, consequent to reorganization of various Districts.

G.O.Ms.No.68, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 14.9.2020
Occupational name of “SalavaiThozhilalar” entered in the List of Most Backward Classes has been deleted.

G.O.(Ms.) No.72, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 24.8.2022.
Consequent to inclusion of Narikoravar (Kuruvikkar) in the list of Scheduled Tribes of the State, the community was deleted from the list of Most Backward Classes.

G.O.(Ms.) No..21, BC, MBC & MW (BCC) Department, dated 30.3.2023.