The reservation system in TN has failed totally in helping the people it is supposed to be helping. But, it has only helped the politicians in garnering votes. The failure can be seen in many ways. Firstly, as pointed out, the upper caste (Brahmins) have migrated in large numbers to states like Karnataka and, the people who are eligible for reservation (SC / ST and other poor people) have also migrated to other states because the OBCs / BCS who do not need the reservation and who actually are the ones to commit atrocities on the people of SCs and STs have forcibly taken away all the benefits from them. Thirdly, the backwardness of the people of TN can be seen in the elections where they can not look beyond DMK and AIADMK alternately. So, any suggestion that reservation has met its objectives in TN will be far fetched and vary very far from the truth
