CHENNAI, Oct. 30 -- The Tamil Nadu cabinet has approved the constitution of a commission headed by a retired high court judge to draft the guidelines for the social justice survey in the state next year, minister CTR Nirmal Kumar said on Thursday. Kumar said the survey will be conducted by February or March 2027, following the completion of the decadal Census exercise. "After the approval for the commission, steps will be taken regarding its structure, economic criteria and the survey," he said, briefing reporters on the Cabinet decisions. "Under the commission, a statewide survey would be conducted. This would be a survey that assesses social status along with a caste census," the minister for energy resources and law added. "Only today the approval for the commission has come through. Moving forward, steps will be taken regarding the commission's structure, economic criteria, and the caste-wise survey. All of this was discussed in today's cabinet meeting," he said. On June 19, soon after the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) formed the government on May 10, Governor Rajendra Arlekar had announced the government's decision to undertake the survey. The Tamil Nadu government will file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Madras high court judgment quashing the 2024 government order on reservations for converted Muslims, minister CTR Nirmal Kumar said on Thursday. The Supreme Court had on October 15 upheld Madras high court's decision that barred the state government from allowing a Hindu man from the backward class (BC) who converted to Islam to retain his backward tag by getting a community certificate of any one of the seven notified Muslim BCs in the state....