The scheme of reservation, worked out for the post of Mayor for 12 municipal corporations out of 21 in Tamil Nadu, is based on the data of Census 2011 and the legal provisions relevant to urban local bodies, according to a senior government official.
On Monday, the State government issued a notification, bringing Chennai and 11 other corporations under one form of reservation or the other. Chennai and one of its neighbouring corporations, Tambaram, have been reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SCs-women), while another neighbouring civic body, Avadi, has been set apart for the SCs and Kancheepuram for women (general).
Two more clusters of nearby corporations — Madurai and Dindigul, and Coimbatore and Erode — have been covered under the scheme, and the four local bodies are meant for women (general). Totally, there are three categories of reservation — SCs, SCs (women) and women (general).
