Kozhikode: The influx of migrant workers even in rural areas has created a nagging problem - communication. Uneducated migrant labourers find 'Malayalam' a hard nut to crack, and eventually, it leaves them underpaid.
The plight of the Hindi-speaking workers prompted Sunny Joseph, the managing director of Kozhikode-based St Jude Books, to publish a language trainer Malayalam Seekhne Keliye…
The book will be published in September, and 20 Hindi teachers from various educational institutions headed by Dr Arsu are fine-tuning its content.
"The 100-page book is being prepared in separate modules enabling them to survive in most common places such as railway stations, hospitals and medical shops, besides their workplace," says Mr Joseph.
A workshop for migrant labourers organised here last month by Public Relations department had highlighted the need for proper communication.
The same is the case of native people in rural areas who doesn't know Hindi. There comes the second part of the book, helping the native speakers in the national language.
"Difficulties the local people face in conversing in Hindi with the migrant labourers also need to be addressed. Moreover, learning the national language would open new horizons of knowledge to the native speakers," said Dr Arsu, former head of the department of Hindi, Calicut University.
According to Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, there are more than 25 lakh migrant people in Kerala.
