Dear All
As we know india has diverse culture and population in caste, creed and calss. In the same way more than 500tribal communities are residing in india. In orissa 62tribal communities including 13 Premitive Tribal Groups are residing. They are also called as the son of soil and they prefer to remain in their original form. In this process they have their own culture, Traditional knowledge, Dance, Music and musical instrument,Painting and above all food practice and food crops. Even they have their traditional crop breeding giving effect to a geographic indicator.
the problem is that they do not have access to knowledge on intellectual property and they do not prefer to indulge in the hactic procedural apart of IPR.
We are also aware that people are getting the patents of tribal knowledge in their own without acknowledging the source of knowledge.
Is there any mechanism or law through which the tribal knowledge can be protected by default without getting into the IPR official procedure.
Sankar Pani
