Madikeri, Sept 8: The Karnataka Social Welfare department has supplied nutritious food and supplies to over 400 families of the Kudiya community- a scheduled tribe –who were affected in the recent floods.
More families will be brought under the welfare umbrella, and this is expected to go a long way in meeting the sustainable and people-oriented development goals of the State.
The decision followed a visit by a team of officials to Kodagu district to assess the damage and provide for immediate needs as well as long-term rehabilitation requirements.
According to a release, the government had earlier implemented a programme under which vulnerable and marginalised communities and those belonging to Scheduled Tribes, such as Jenu Kuruba, Erava, Soliga, and Kadu Kuruba, in Kodagu district, as well as Kadu Kuruba, Jenu Kuruba, Soliga, Irava, Siddi, Male Kudi, Kadiya, Gowdalu, and Hasalaru tribes living in forest areas of Mysuru, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Chikkamagaluru and Shivamogga districts, have been receiving additional food supplies over their allotted ration.
Families from these communities are being provided 15 kg of staple grains such as rice, wheat, or ragi, 5 kg of tur dal, 5 kg of pulses such as horse gram, cowpea, or green gram, 2 litres of cooking oil, 4 kg of sugar and jaggery, 45 eggs, and 1 kg of Nandini ghee every montha
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