Kerala Forest dept. rolls out ‘Oorunarvu’ for tribal welfare, forest conservation
Children from Vaniyampuzha tribal hamlet receiving Forest Minister Shibu Baby John by singing a folk song on Thursday. | Photo Credit: SAKEER HUSSAIN If the Geology department certifies their former settlement site in the forest as habitable, it will be restored to them. Otherwise, alternative land will be allotted within six months after securing Central approval, the Minister said.Mr. Baby John said tribal youth would get priority in recruitment to the proposed 500-member Forest department special reserve force.
- ▪Children from Vaniyampuzha tribal hamlet receiving Forest Minister Shibu Baby John by singing a folk song on Thursday. | Photo Credit: SAKEER HUSSAIN If the Geology department certifies their former settlement site in the forest as habitabl
- ▪Otherwise, alternative land will be allotted within six months after securing Central approval, the Minister said.Mr.
- ▪Baby John said tribal youth would get priority in recruitment to the proposed 500-member Forest department special reserve force.
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The Forest department has launched ‘Oorunarvu’, an initiative to improve the living conditions of tribal communities in forest areas while drawing on their traditional knowledge for forest conservation and mitigating human-wildlife conflict.Launching the programme at Vaniyampuzha tribal hamlet in Munderi forests near Nilambur on Thursday (July 23, 2026), Forest Minister Shibu Baby John said he would visit all 36 tribal settlements in forest areas to hear grievances and coordinate solutions with the Scheduled Tribes Development department.The Forest department will allot land for a pre-primary school and a community hall at Vaniyampuzha and for an anganwadi at Mundakkadavu in the Karulai forest.The department will also rehabilitate families from the Thandankallu tribal settlement,…
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