Proceedings from KSTRI
- Instances of putting people in kennels and getting the adivasi bitten
- oppressors asking to be included into Budakattu - court case - subramanya swamy(?) -
- 3 types of Kudiya - adikemale kudiya, poomale kudiya, tenmale kudiya (malayalam) - we say the Kodava customs and traditions are ours
- schooling is good but low on education - high drop outs
- we live in high altitude - tadiyandamol shade - above 2000 m - far away from schools - elephants -
- have land but not recorded
- 2-5% in “line mane”; most of us live in our own houses even if it is gudasalu
- we need an academy for 12 budakattus - we need our own funds and we need our own organisations; much like kodava, tulu academies
- we have independnence revolutionaries from Kudiya - 2 of them - not recorded - our history even in the indidpendence is denied; Recognise the independence revolutionaries from among us 12
- unemployment despite being MSW etc
- they try to divide us by asking our youth to enrol in anti-naxal forces; instead take us into police and forest dept instead of making us fight naxals
- the scheme of the govt is useless and not made for us living in higher altitude - high rainfalls; cant work on reimbursement schemes
- need a more federated structure for data collection
- we are over 1000 families of the 3 kudiyas but data shows less than half corruption by MLAs and tahsildars under housing promises being made (94C form? no)
- several instances of lightening strikes on our homes
- structural problems with the valmiki nigama schemes for homes - they will refer to the panchayat