Tamil Nadu is the only state providing reservation in education and jobs up to 69% right from 1980. After the apex court’s 1992 judgment in Indra Sawhney case, the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed an act in 1993 comprehensively laying down its reservation policy, which again reiterated a total reservation of 69% seats in education and employment for SCs, STs and Backward Classes. This act was then included in the 9th Schedule by Parliament via the 76th Amendment in 1994.
However, in a 2012 judgment (SV Joshi v Union of India) the Supreme Court clarified that the Tamil Nadu legislation was not ....
