The superpower of Odisha’s migrant workers, crafted over a decade
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The superpower of Odisha’s migrant workers, crafted over a decade

Live Mint  

Bhubaneswar/Chennai: Ram Babu Singh, a human resources manager at Sri Kannapiran Mills, in Coimbatore, has a skill that helps him hire and retain migrant workers coming to Tamil Nadu—he can speak 10 languages. “Workers from Odisha earn higher than other workers as their productivity is high," said Raja M. Shanmugham, founder of Warsaw International, a large exporter of knitwear and former president of Tiruppur Exporters’ Association. “Odisha will be the growth engine of Viksit Bharat," the state’s chief minister, Mohan Charan Majhi, told Mint during an interaction on the sidelines of the conclave held end-January. “Odisha’s large pool of skilled workers is clearly a differentiating factor," he added. “If workers from Odisha choose to return to their state, we will be in crisis," said Tiruppur’s Shanmugham.

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