“Malayalam examination was easy. I wrote it well.” Everyone congratulated and clapped, when Sufikul Islam Mandal of West Bengal said this in a chaste Malayalam.
He was one of the migrant workers who wrote the Changathi literacy examination organised by the literacy mission at Kolazhy in Thrissur recently. In all, 92 labourers working in and around Kolazhy attended the examination. Sufikul Islam Mandal, 51, was the seniormost student.
The Changathi project has been envisaged by the literacy mission for teaching migrant labourers to read and write Malayalam and Hindi.
