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Kadar Tribe
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- Some families of the Kadar tribe have got Pattas for homestead inside the Anaimalai Tiger Reserve (ATR).
- Kadar is a small tribe of southern India residing along the hilly border between Cochin in Kerala and Coimbatore in Tamil Nādu.
- Kadars are one of the five primitive tribal groups in Kerala, where they constitute nearly 5% of the State’s total tribal population.
- They speak the Dravidian languages of Tamil and Kannaḍa.
- The Kadar tribe has been listed as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) in Kerala, but not in Tamil Nadu.
- A tribe listed in the PVTG allows the tribe to have habitat rights under the Forest Rights Act 2006.
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