Bengaluru, Jan. 1- Bowing to pressure from people of Kodagu and Codava National Council, the State Government has re-commissioned an ethnographic and socioeconomic survey to see whether the Kodava community qualifies for tribal status. This is the third time such a survey has been taken up in the wake of reports on an alarming decline in the population of Kodava community.
In 2011, the then UPA government directed that a survey must be conducted but it was put on hold for political reasons. A survey initiated by the Siddharamaiah government in 2016 too was also stopped midway.
