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Codava council to take out `Pombolakk' procession

By Our Staff Correspondent

MADIKERI, APRIL 12. The Codava National Council, spearheading the struggle for autonomous status for Kodagu, will take out a "Pombolakk" festival procession to observe Kodava new year, as per Kodava calender on April 14, the secretary general, N.U. Nachappa, said here on Tuesday.

Speaking to presspersons, Mr. Nachappa said that women dressed in traditional costumes and carrying "taliyakki bolakk" with lamps (pombolakk), and men will take out a procession from the General Thimmaiah Circle to Cauvery Hall, where a seminar has been organised.

Noted anthropologists, Abdul Kalam from the University of Madras, and C. Rajan Gurukal from the Kottayam University, will address the seminar, he said.

The council will reiterate its demands for considering Kodavas as primitive tribes with reservations for the community, including Kodava language in the VIII Schedule of the Constitution, providing the constitutional guarantee to the land, culture, heritage of the Kodavas, declaring the erstwhile 45 "nads" (small cluster of villages) as autonomous Kodava homeland.

The council's demands are within the constitutional framework, he said.

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