The work on ‘En Uru’, the first tribal heritage village in the State, is nearing completion. The village is being set up on 25 acres of land on the slope of a hillock with lush green surroundings at Pookode.
The project envisages to provide a permanent platform to showcase the diverse tribal traditional knowledge and heritage as well as to enhance the livelihood options of tribal communities. The ₹10-crore project is being set up jointly by the Tourism and the Scheduled Tribe Development departments.
The project was initiated by the then Wayanad Subcollector N. Prashant in 2012 with an initial cost of ₹3 crore, but the construction work started only in 2016 owing to technical issues. Later, the work was handed over to the District Nirmithi Kendra in 2016 and the first phase was completed in 2018.
