Bondas tribal community 

Bondas tribal community 

Part of: GS-Prelims and GS-I – Society; GS-II – Health

In News:

• Bondas, a tribal community, was recently in news, when four of its members tested positive for COVID-19.

Key takeaways 

• The community resides in the hill ranges of Malkangiri district in Odisha. 
• It belongs to a particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG). 
• It lives in settlements comprising small hutments in the hills of the Khairaput block. 
• Odisha is home to 62 tribal communities — the largest diverse groups of tribal population in India.
• 13 of them are PVTGs. 
• Tribal populations are found in the entire seven districts of Kandhamal, Mayurbhanj, Sundargarh, Nabarangpur, Koraput, Malkanagiri and Rayagada.