e-Community Certificate is sufficient for TNPSC

1. What is the percentage of reservation for women?

 A Minimum of 30 % of all vacancies are allotted for Woman Applicants. Women applicants are eligible for 30% of vacancies in each Communal Category and General Category based on the Rule of Reservation. Women/Transgender (Female) candidates shall be eligible to compete in the said 30% reservation. They shall also be entitled to compete in the remaining 70% of the vacancies along with Male Candidates/Third Gender/Third Gender (Male) applicants. 

2. I have e-Community Certificate only as an evidence to substantiate the claim of my Community. Would it suffice or do I have to get Community Certificate in life card? 

The e-Community Certificate is sufficient. It is not necessary to furnish a Community Certificate in life Card format.

3. I have converted to my Husband’s religion after marriage. I am professing my Husband’s religious customs. Can I submit a Community Certificate based on my Husband’s religion? 

Community Certificate issued in the name of the Husband/Husband’s religion will not be accepted. 

4. The ancestral origin of my father is Cuddalore District. But my father was born in Puducherry and my Community Certificate certifying as if belonging to Backward Class was issued by the Zonal Deputy Tahsildar, Cuddalore. Will there be any dispute, since, my father’s place of birth is Puducherry. 

No dispute will occur in this regard. 

5. Do the candidates who are born to parents who had married by Inter caste marriage has to necessarily get Community Certificate based on the Community of the father? 

Candidates who are born to parents who have got married by Inter-caste Marriage, can get community Certificate based on the Community of father or mother. 

6. The Father’s name in the Community Certificate has been corrected. Will it be accepted? 

Based on the name change that has got published in the Government Gazzette, the name correction will be accepted. 

7. I have lost my Community Certificate during transit and I have received a new Community Certificate. Can it be accepted? 

It will be accepted.