Kal Oddar

Kal Oddar is a nomadic community, and the members move from one place to another every year in search of livelihood. This community is underdeveloped socially, economically, and educationally. This unit engages with this community by providing legal awareness, education to children, organise workshops to improve their access to government schemes, getting caste certificates, and women development.

Currently, in 15 centres in 7 districts of Tamil Nadu, evening supplementary education is organised to reduce the dropouts and improve their education. Moreover, programmes are conducted to develop their learning capacities and increase their interest in education by organising extra-curricular activities, spoken English, and arts and crafts.

The police consider them as criminal community and several false cases have been filed on the members of this community. To counter this, the community members have formed an organisation ‘Alaikudi People’s Rights Movement’. The community is supported through legal interventions to deal with false and fabricated cases.