SSA plans for education of children of migrant labourers

In view of increasing inflow of migrant workers from other states into Kerala, the state Education Department is planning to open more study centres exclusively for their children under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to make them part of mainstream education system.
Several children of migrant workers have already been enrolled in government schools in many districts and the study centres have been operating in around 10 districts, SSA officials said here.
Seeking to bring maximum number of migrant children under the ambit of general education, more study centres are to be opened in the rest of the districts, SSA Kerala Project Director E P Mohandas said.

Region-specific education module is also under plan to bring the children to these study centres, he said.
"The inflow of migrant workers into Kerala is increasing on a remarkable pace. If we do not pay special attention to their children, they will be deprived of education. So, we are trying to enroll maximum children in government schools in respective areas and bring the rest into our study centres," Mohandas told PTI.
However, a general study module and syllabus is not practical in the case of migrant labourers as they are coming from different states and from different linguistic background, he said.