More focus on migrant workers

The district administration will constitute a panchayat-level monitoring committee to collect details of migrant workers staying without basic amenities in Kozhikode.

District Collector C.A. Latha announced this during a discussion on the living conditions of migrant workers in her chamber here on Thursday.

She said that infectious diseases such as malaria were spreading due to the unhygienic conditions in which the migrant population live. Even timely health check-up was not conducted for them. She said most of the migrant workers lived in makeshift tents on rooftop of houses.

The Collector warned the labourers that the permit given to them would be cancelled if they did not register their names and obtain certificates from the police and other authorities.

Employers should maintain a database and other details including photographs of employees. The employers would be served notices regarding this.

The police would also keep an eye on the migrant workers for checking crimes among them. Hotel and restaurant workers should provide identity cards to them, she said. The Collector also added that squads attached to Departments of Health and Labour with Corporation and grama panchayat officials would carry out checks at their places of work and residences.