Overview

• On July 17, nearly 300 Kodarvi tribe members from 29 families returned to Mota Pipodara after 11 years of exile under the Chadotaru custom.
• Banaskantha police and the District Inspector of Land Records surveyed and cleared approximately 8.5 hectares of ancestral farmland for cultivation.
• Two permanent houses have been completed and 27 more are under construction through the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana with district administration support.
• Educational materials, ration supplies and other essentials were distributed as families participated in prayer and seed-sowing rituals.
• Officials say this initiative reflects a new social policing approach that pairs empathetic enforcement with development support to resolve customary conflicts.