HUBLI: Karnataka Rajya Gondhali, Joshi, Budabudaki Vasudeva Samajagala Okkuta, a union of Gondhali, Joshi, Budabudaki and Vasudeva communities, has urged the State Government to provide adequate facilities and programmes for the progress of the community members.

Addressing presspersons here on Friday, P.D. Sugate, president of the union, said that there were around 6 lakh people in the State belonging to these communities.

They have been deprived of various facilities owing to lack of representation in the social, educational and political fields. Basically the members of these communities belonged to the nomadic tribe, who earn a living by performing their art form in public. Known by various names in various regions of the State, they still travel from place to place to earn a living, he said.

Mr. Sugate urged the Government to include these communities under the scheduled tribes.

They should be listed as nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes, he urged. To a query, he said although there were various schemes, they were not being properly implemented because of which living standards of the community members had not improved so far.

In order to highlight the problems of the community members and bring them together on a single platform, a State-level convention of the communities had been organised at Dr. Mallikarjun Mansur Kalabhavan, Dharwad on January 7, he said.

The union plans to submit memoranda in this regard to Ministers Jagadish Shettar, Balachandra Jarakiholi, Basavaraj Horatti and others who would be participating in the inaugural session.

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