{"id":60358,"date":"2025-08-21T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=60358"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:57:09","slug":"didayi-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/didayi-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Didayi Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Didayi Tribe Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Champa Raspeda, a student from Odisha\u2019s Malkangiri district, has made history by becoming the first member of the Didayi, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG), to clear NEET 2025. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Didayi Tribe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Didayi tribe, also known as the Didai people or Didiya tribe, is an<\/span><b> indigenous tribal community<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> residing in the Malkanagiri district of <\/span><b>Odisha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are one of 13 <\/span><b>Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PVTG) in Odisha.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They belong to the <\/span><b>Proto-Australoid racial stock.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They speak a <\/span><b>language <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which has been included under the <\/span><b>Austroasiatic language family.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Didayi\u2019s<\/span><b> social structure is patriarchal,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and their <\/span><b>religious beliefs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are rooted in <\/span><b>animism<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with a<\/span><b> deep reverence for the natural world.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They<\/span><b> live in small, remote forest villages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, often in the <\/span><b>Eastern Ghats hills.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Villages have a<\/span><b> traditional council of elders <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that settles disputes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Houses are typically thatched huts built with mud walls and bamboo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The primary occupation of the Didayi tribe traditionally revolves around <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">agriculture, hunting, gathering, and fishing.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/education-today\/news\/story\/odishas-champa-raspeda-becomes-first-from-didayi-tribe-to-clear-neet-2774053-2025-08-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didayi Tribe is an indigenous tribal community residing in the Malkanagiri district of Odisha. 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