Proeedings from KSTRI meeting - includes KK as well. we are the same. only in 3 districts; our own survey showsn 8000-odd but reserach studeis show 5000 families... - LIttle bit of access to land schemes; limited access to housing; pls give special package for housing, water and for our culture and folklore - erotion of our songs, language - our population is decreasing - - we record 160 deaths per year esp among adult males - in kodagu, all of our people in line-houses not even eable to identify and bring them into community organisations - estate managers prevent people from surveying tribes workign inside estates - need special powers to survey adivasis stuck in bonded labour inside estates - for eg. Yerava is inside alemaari & budakattu - alemaaru results in us losing the forest rights - Need to "steal one's way into the forest for burial"; is this the life we wanted....we cant even claim our rights under FRA; case of needing to go 10 km inside forests after seekign permision which was received at 3 PM in HDK taluka - we are across 250 haadis - appeal for instrumetns and accessories for advancing our folklore and culture - instead of that big building samudaaya bhavana - not getting any nutritious food in line-mane of BKs in Kodagu- - remove duplication of names in state ST list - Even within the ST list, Soliga in Mysore for eg. has taken up JK certificates and housing schemes (gave an example) - we may be having known to us 160-odd kulals - these need to be studied in terms of their origins locations, and burial sites - study the lack of access of tribals to their own cultural and other sites - regarding BK issues in teh Assadi report - reports 3400 odd families and dont agree with teh 15 lakhs per family - SC has already asked for 55 lakhs odd in 2008 itself as a relief for a family - at least give costing of money equivalent to 3 acres, a house, and other stuff - some of the committees ruling on our issues do not have our own people as members - we are bamboo weavers and this is our historical occupation and also shifting cultivation - bamboo is also getting destroyed - instacnes of SCD among the BKs; not getting treatment, screeening - need for special access to food for patients with SCD - even our ashrama school teachers are not qualified as per the education policy of the state - better qualfied teachers - have more people from within the community as teachers -