KOCHI: The Devaswom Board in Kerala has paved the way for a Scheduled Tribe to join the Santhi posts in temples for the first time. SA Arjun, a Scheduled Tribe, is also included in the rank list for the part-time Santhi post in the Travancore Devaswom Board. There are no Scheduled Tribes in the main list. Arjun is the only one in the supplementary list. According to the reservation rotation, 44th and 92nd posts are for Scheduled Tribes. 125 vacancies have been reported. The board, which included Paravur Rakesh Thantri and Aluva Thanthra Vidya Peedham's Shankaranarayana Pramod Namboothiri, interviewed 450 people. More than 60 percent were non-Brahmin candidates.

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