Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat conducted a survey simultaneously in 194 gram panchayats in the district on Thursday to find out the basic socio-economic conditions of Koragas, considered most oppressed and backward among Scheduled Tribes.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the panchayat K. N. Vijay Prakash told The Hindu that the primary focus of the survey was to find out how many Koraga families were homeless.
He said the survey could not be done in the remaining nine panchayats because of gram sabhas being held on Thursday.
Those panchayats would be covered on Friday.
Analysis
Mr. Prakash said the findings of the survey would be analysed within 10 days.
The resources of gram panchayats under the supervision of Panchayat Development Officers (PDOs) were used for the survey, he said.
The former Minister J. Krishna Palemar had mooted a proposal of building houses for houseless Koragas under public-private partnership.
When it was discussed in the meeting of the zilla panchayat council a month ago, the council decided to conduct a re-survey of Koragas before taking up the housing project.
Estimated cost
He said it had been estimated to build a house at an estimated cost of Rs. 2.10 lakh, of which Rs. 60,000 would be raised from private and public sector companies as donation and the balance would be borne by the Union and State governments.
As the zilla panchayat could not accept donations directly from the companies, a proposal had been sent to the State Government permitting to form a trust to receive the donations for the project.
