Kerala government's initiative is expected to be a boon for around 25 lakh workers, who migrated to Kerala from other states.Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority is all set to release a textbook exclusively to teach migrant laborers Malayalam, the mother tongue of the people of the state.
The state government initiative is expected to be a boon for around 25 lakh workers, who migrated to Kerala from other states, including West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Tamil Nadu.
Titled 'Hamari Malayalam' (Our Malayalam), the textbook will be launched by state education minister C. Raveendranath at Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district, a town with largest migrant labor population in the state.
Literacy Mission director P.S. Sreekala said the book has been designed in such a way that migrant laborers can interact with local people freely and fluently in their daily life.
The textbook would be used under 'Changathi', the Mission's exclusive program for migrant workers, she said.
"Our core objective is to make migrant laborers competent in reading and writing Malayalam. Many of them can already speak broken Malayalam," Sreekala told PTI.
Though migrant workers have been playing a key role in many sectors in the state, they are still facing exclusion in society, she said.
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