Hanagod: Masthamma, a native doctor and recipient of Kannada Rajyotsava award, has urged the State Government to announce a special COVID package for Soliga and Medar community as they have been hit hard due to the current lockdown.
She told SOM that the Medar community, who are into making different varieties of items from bamboo, have been badly hit in the current second wave and have been rendered jobless. There are hundreds of families belonging to the two communities who earn their livelihood by selling baskets, cages, fans and other items made from bamboo and sell them in shandies, she added.
