Mudad Revathi, a migrant labourer who hails from Odisha scored the highest mark in the Kerala literacy examination.
An employee of a garment making unit at the IT hub Technopark, Revathi scored 100 per cent marks in the special examination, conducted by the state-run Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority. The 100 marks-exam was activity oriented, giving an impetus on reading, writing and arithmetical skills.
She had been learning Malayalam for some time under the state-wide “Changathi” programme, an initiative of the Mission to impart Malayalam and basic education among migrant laborers who arrived in Kerala to fid livelihood.
She, along with several other migrant workers from different states, recently wrote the exam, the results of which was announced on Monday.
“I tried to spend at least two hours to learn Malayalam every night after my work,” Revathi said. Besides her, Viki Kumar, a worker from Bihar, also scored 100 per cent marks, a Mission release said here.
In another flagship initiative of the Mission to eradicate illiteracy among fisherfolk in the state called “Aksharasagaram”, a 90-year-old Mythili, native of a fishing hamlet in Kozhikode, has secured full marks.
Recently, Karthyayani Amma, a 96-year-old neo-literate had hit the headlines by scoring 98 marks out of 100 under the “Aksharalaksham” project. Besides “Changathi” and “Aksharasagaram”, the Mission has also conducted examinations under the “Navachetana” and “Samagra” programmes, aimed to educate backward classes and tribals respectively, the release added.
“A total of 8,605 neo-literates have won various examinations under different projects”, the Mission Director, PS Sreekala said.