Government Orders of Interest to Citizens

SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT

G.O.Ms.No. 477                                                                                                             Dated : 27 - 06 – 1975

ORDER :

The Government have been extending certain concessions to the members of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes from time to time. A question about the determination of the community of the children born of inter – caste marriages.

2. The Government after carefully examining the question, direct that the children born of inter – caste marriages, that is, marriages-

1. between a person of S.T and another of a S.C or Backward Class or Forward Class;
2. between a person of a Scheduled Caste and another of a Backward Class or Forward Class; and
3. between a person of a Backward Class and of a Forward Class.

shall be considered to belong to either the community of the father or the community of the mother according to the declaration of the parents regarding the way of life in which the children are brought up and that the declaration in respect of one child will apply to all children.

( By order of the Governor )

S.SATHYABAMA,

SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.

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