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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, MP, has demanded Scheduled Tribe (ST) presumption for Kalanadi community, 1 of the earliest inhabitants of Wayanad. In a missive to Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram, Ms. Vadra said that Kalanadi assemblage is simply a tiny radical with primitive traits.
The State authorities has already recommended that Kalanadi community, presently classified nether the Other Eligible Community (OEC) category, beryllium reclassified arsenic Scheduled Tribes.
Ms. Vadras raised the request citing the Kalanadi community’s social, economical and geographical backwardness arsenic good arsenic their declining colonisation of conscionable 328 individuals.
A survey connected Kalanadi assemblage conducted by Kerala Institute for Research, Training and Development Studies (KIRTADS) has identified characteristics similar ain language, past and primitive traits, distinctive culture, isolated behaviour, tribal rules, primitive economical activity, geographical isolation, acquisition and socio-economic backwardness, and declining population.
The KIRTADS survey has described the Kalanadis arsenic nomads. “At present, lone 328 members of the assemblage remain. The Kalanadis are historically marginalised and person been warring for respective decades to beryllium included successful the database of Scheduled Tribes,” said Ms. Vadra.
