KOZHIKODE ‘En Uru’, the first tribal heritage village in the state, which is intended to provide a permanent platform to showcase the diverse tribal traditional knowledge and heritage as well as enhance livelihood options to the tribal communities, was inaugurated at Lakkidi in Wayanad on Wednesday.

The buildings constructed for the first phase of the heritage village was inaugurated by A K Balan, minister for welfare of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes & backward classes, via videoconferencing. The Rs 10-crore project is being set up jointly by the scheduled tribes development department and state