KOCHI: The Kalamassery police has been able to gather details from 238 labourers in the first day of collecting of data on migrant workers. The exercise, which will be continued in the coming days, is aimed at providing labourers from other states with identity and registration cards. Most of those who were registered with the Kalamassery police on Saturday belong to Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Odisha and Jharkhand, said M.K. Sajeev, Kalamassery police SI, who initiated the collection of data.
"We will collect the data without disturbing the working hours of these persons as well as according to availability of manpower resources in the police station," he said. The data are collected to provide an identity card to the workers from other states, he said. The card will have finger print of the employee and contact address of their native place. It will also have contact details of relatives and friends of the migrant worker, employed at different work sites in the state.
Police says that such a card will help employers get an idea about the labourers from other states, Mr Sajeev said. In the first phase the details of the workers in selected establishments were collected. Those who have rented out houses or flats to migrant workers should also use this facility in the next phase, police officials said. The detailed data collection is undertaken in view of the increasing incidents of migrant workers being involved in criminal cases, they added.
