KOCHI: The additional ten percent reservation given to backward classes, scheduled castes and tribals in Devaswom Board appointments is being sabotaged. The Devaswom Recruitment Board and the Revenue (Devaswom) Department are behind this. The government decision taken a year and a half ago has not been implemented yet. It is being delayed and sabotaged by the top brass. It is said that it will be implemented only subject to the approval of the Revenue Department, even in the recruitment notification issued on September 1. Many candidates are losing reservation benefits due to this.

The amendment is to distribute Muslim and Christian reservation to backward and scheduled communities and to give economic reservations for the general category. Meanwhile, the board is very diligent on the iss

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