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5. In the case of the petitioner in WP No.25963/13  E.Mani, Scheduled Tribe community certificates bearing the name Kurumans was issued to the close relatives was submitted. The partition deed of the year 1988 was also submitted. The school certificate of the petitioner has been enclosed, where the name of the community is mentioned as Kurumans. The authority, however, rejected the same by first holding that the school certificate of the petitioner  Mani shows as Kurumbar. However, we find that the school transfer certificate found at page-3 of the typed set, the community name is shown as Kurumans. It is also held by the authority, that the grandsons and grandchildren of the petitioner's paternal uncle, Kannan, S/o Ponnusamy, bears the community certificate dated 6.12.2010, wherein it is shown as Kurumbar (MBC). The authority also further held that the relatives of the petitioner in the village hold community certificate as Kurumbar (MBC). Further, the authority has also held that insofar as Chinniampet Village, no Kurumans Scheduled Tribe Community certificate has been issued and, therefore, the application of the petitioner was rejected. The above stand of the authority is assailed by the petitioner submitting that the authority has not given a finding on the certificate issued to the close relatives and the school certificate of the petitioner has not been properly considered. Nevertheless, the petitioner has also taken a plea that there is no community by name Kurumbar and to stress home the point, placed reliance on the order dated 11.2.11, passed in W.P. No.3233/11.

3. The Government would like to place the following before the Government of India, for their kind consideration and early orders :-
The Director, Tribal Research Centre, Ooty was entrusted with the task of taking up the ethnological study on the communities under recommendation.
Anthropological Ethnographic details about the specific community people, studied above, in the Districts of Dharmapuri, Vellore and Salem reveals the fact that they belong to Kurumba, Kurumbar or Kurumans. The study reveals that on the basis of social structure clan organization and the cycle rituals, all these names like KURUMBA, KURIMBAR AND KURUMANS are one and the same community. The KURUMBA, KURUMBAR AND KURUMANS are originally identical with the shepherd Kurumbans and their present habitat and traditional occupation reveals that they belong to same community. The present study Anthropological conclusions and the observations of earlier writers like Thurston, A.Aiyappan, K.S.Singh, etc., reveals that Kurumba, Kurumbar and Kurumans are synonyms to each other and they belong to same community. The study concludes that this community people are eligible to Scheduled Tribes status under the name KURUMANS. The community KURUMBAS (in the Nilgiris District) and Scheduled Tribes only in Nilgiris District but the studied people under the name KURUMANS can be identified as a Scheduled Tribes throughout Tamil Nadu. Again it is to be noted here that KURUMBA GOUNDER in the list of Backward Class throughout the State of Tamil Nadu and KURUMBA (in the list of Most Backward Class throughout the State of Tamil Nadu) and the KURUMANS are one and the same and it is concluded here that KURUMBA, KURUMBAR and KURUMANS can be identified as eligible to get Scheduled Tribes status under the name KURUMANS.
The study of the Director, Tribal Research Centre, Ooty further reveals that te communities like Kuruma, Kuruman, Kurumba, Kurumba Gounder, Kurumban and Kurumbar are identical to each other and these names are synonym names to the community of KURUMANS and therefore these communities KURUMA, KURUMAN, KURUMBA, KURUMBA GOWNDER, KURUMBAN and KURUMBAR may be brought under KURUMANS in the list of Scheduled Tribes.
A copy of the detailed study report in this regaqrd is enclosed.
4. I would therefor fervently request you to use your good offices and bestow your personal intervention to take appropriate steps for inclusion in the list of the Scheduled Tribes, the synonymous names of the KURUMANS SCHEDULED TRIBES SUCH AS KURUMA, KURUMAN, KURUMBA, KURUMBA GOUNDER, KURUMBAN AND KURUMBAR communities in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Tamil Nadu while moving consolidated amendment as envisaged under Article 341 (2), 342 (2) of the Constitution of India.
2. In reply to the above letter of the Government of Tamil Nadu, the Tribal Affairs Department of the Government of India, vide letter dated 8.4.09, rejected the request of the Government of Tamil Nadu, which is extracted hereunder :-
Sir, I am directed to refer to the proposal of the State Government of Tamil Nadu for inclusion of above communities in the ST list of Tamil Nadu and to say that the proposal have been processed as per modalities approved in June, 1999 by the Government for deciding claims for inclusion in, exclusion from and other modifications in the orders specifying list of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (copy enclosed). The RGI vide their D.O. Letter No.8/1/2007-SS (Tamil Nadu) dated 22-3-07 supported the inclusion of Kuruman as synonym of Kurumans ST of Tamil Nadu; but did not support the inclusion of Kuruma, Kurumba, Kurumba Gounder, Kurumban and Kurumbar as synonyms of Kurumans ST of Tamil Nadu. The RGI has again reiterated its commends vide their D.O. Letter No.8/1/2007-SS (Tamil Nadu) dated 14-1-2009, copy enclosed. Hence, the proposal for inclusion of communities Kuruma, Kurumba, Kurumba Gounder, Kurumban and Kurumbar as synonyms of Kurumans ST of Tamil Nadu are rejected as per Para (P) of the above cited modalities.