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        The aim of this site is to improve the communication between velan-perumannan community shattered all over kerala and make the youth of velan-perumannan community aware of the history of our community, current events, units etc and bring them all together under one umbrella. It will also introduce you to the associations, magazines, jobs, offices, news, personalities etc of our community.

        It's a great platform which offers latest news, details about SC/ST development offices, supreme court judgments about reservations, space for matrimony, poems, stories etc and space to discuss these issues and causes. As the youth of today is very busy with their jobs and studies, it is tough for them to find time to make an association or to attend a meeting to convey their views and expressions. This problem can be solving by this website. Anyone from anywhere in the world can access this site through internet at any time. whether it from home or office or somewhere else. You can also join as member of velan-perumannan group to express yourself to your intimates and other members of the group.
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Narendran commission report cancelled: The supreme court on 23rd February 2007 cancelled the narendran commission report. Appointed in january 2000, the Commission submitted its report in May the same year, rasing the annual income limit from Rs 1.5 lakh-set by the previous K.J.Joseph Commission-to Rs 3 lakh to identify creamy layer.
Vote'n'Talk poll: As per indiavision's vote 'n' talk programme, 78% of the viewers says that the supreme court's verdict will effect the backward communities.
Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe mela in Kochi: Gadhika 2007, a scheduled caste and scheduled tribe mela conducted by scheduled caste & schedule tribe development office at subhash park, kochi
Why delay in private sector quota, says Paswan: Raising the pitch at the end of the Dalit Muslim conference organized by him, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said “there can be no excuse for the delay in implementing reservation in the private sector.”
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Financial help for Scheduled caste families below poverty line

The state government offers financial help to purchase land for 2000 scheduled caste families under poverty line .

SC asks govt to appoint fresh commission

The Supreme Court cancelled the Justice Narendran Commission report recommending raising of the annual income limit to 3 lakh for exclusion of the creamy layer from the backward class for taking benefits in government jobs and educational institutions.

The bench comprising Justice S.B.Sinha and Justice P.P.Naolekar directed the kerala Government to appoint a fresh commission to go into the issue. The order was passed on a petition filed by the NSS challenging the report of the commission and the government order passed pursuant to it.


Reservation indefinite for OBC & minority communities?

Supreme court verdict cancelling the Justice K.K.Narendran Commission report fixing income-based ceiling for creamy layer in backward communities will have an impact, basically, on government recruitments. The supreme court verdict will not affect the educational sector since the Narendran Commission had nothing to do with it.


Why delay in private sector quota, says Paswan

Raising the pitch at the end of the Dalit Muslim conference organized by him, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said “there can be no excuse for the delay in implementing reservation in the private sector.”

“There is already a political consensus on the issue. The Government has finished half its term. What are we waiting for ?” he asked, declaring he will not shy away from agitation if the ruling UPA, of which he is a part, continues to drag its feet on the issue.

HISTORY

       It is history that traditionally medical field were the main profession of velans. Once velans where the fitness guard of our society. Now a days also lot of famous traditional physicians serves the public. Once it was considered that the meaning of velan as a physician. The Theyyam or Theyyattam is a popular ritual dance of North Kerala, particularly now found in the traditional Kolathunadu, of the present Kannur and Kasargode districts. As a living cult with centuries old traditions, ritual and custom, it embraces almost all castes and classes of Hindu religion in this region. The term Theyyam is a corrupt form of daivam or God. It is a rare combination of dance and music and reflects important features of a tribal culture.

       The indigenous Theyyam cult under the influence of the great classical Indian tradition incorporated new ideas and legends. However its form and content did not change very much. The earliest Brahminic settlements like Payyanur and Perimchellur (Thaliparamba) in Kolathunadu where the Brahminic religion was propagated through the institutions of temples largely influenced the popular folk religion based on Theyyam and other tribal cults. According to the legendary Keralolpathi, Parasurama sanctioned the festivals like Kaliyattam, Puravela and Deivattam or Theyyattam to the people of Kerala. He assigned the responsibility of Theyyam dance to the indigenous communities like Panan, Velan and Vannan. The dance of Velan had taken new forms and developed into the present day cult of Theyyam over a period of 1500 years. This uninterrupted continuity of the Sangam tradition makes Theyyam a prominent religious system of north Kerala. As a religious and social institution it has significant place in the cultural history of region.

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