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By Our Staff Correspondent
MADIKERI, DEC. 31. N.U. Nachappa, secretary-general of the Codava National Council, has said that the credit should go to the council for the decision of the State Cabinet on Thursday to recommend to the Centre to include Kodava thakk (language) in the VIII Schedule of the Constitution. Mr. Nachappa told presspersons here on Friday that the proposal to include the language will give it a much-needed fillip towards its promotion and due recognition to it. The council has been pressing for its demands for over a decade. The demands included an autonomous homeland status to Kodavas and constitutional protection to its culture, heritage and language since Kodavas were a linguistic minority. The decision to recommend inclusion of the Kodava language in the VIII Schedule was only a beginning of the efforts of the CNC, he said. The council will follow up safe and smooth passage of the recommendations in Parliament with the help of like-minded MPs in the coming days, Mr. Nachappa said. He thanked Balveer Arora, Rector, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Jayanti Shetty, a Congress Seva Dal leader hailing from Kodagu, for their support to the council when it organised a satyagraha and seminar in New Delhi in November. A language need not necessarily have script or a prescribed population to be able to qualify for inclusion in the VIII Schedule, he said. The council was able to garner support only because its struggle was within the framework of the Constitution. It will re-iterate its demands and persuade the State Government at its proposed "satyagraha" and seminar planned in Bangalore on February 3 and 4. The seminar will be held at Yavanika while the satyagraha venue will be staged either in front of the Gandhi Statue or Raj Bhavan, Mr. Nachappa added.
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