Paliyar tribes seek separate houses in line with cultural practices

A full of 17 families from Shanmugam Parai Paliyarkudi colony successful Periyammapatti panchayat astatine Palani taluk successful Dindigul territory person petitioned the Dindigul Collector, urging the territory medication to recognise and make their existing colony arsenic a ceremonial village.

The petitioners, belonging to Paliyar tribe, said they are a forest‑dependent nomadic assemblage traditionally engaged successful collecting insignificant wood produce, goat rearing and cultivation labour.

They said location tract pattas were issued to them 3 years agone but they proceed to unrecorded successful idiosyncratic hut houses connected astir 1 acre of authorities poramboke land.

According to the petition, intimately built factual houses successful dense colonies would spell against their customary mode of life, which requires abstraction for livestock sheds and scattered housing. The families person requested a due survey and demarcation of the patta onshore already allotted to them, followed by the operation of abstracted factual houses nether the Tholkudi strategy successful a layout that respects their taste practices and ancestral lifestyle.