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Adivasis and the Indian State: Abysmal wages, ineffective labour unions leave tribal tea garden workers high and dry
FirstpostIt has been 71 years since Independence. Workers on tea plantations have to contend with woefully low wages, inadequate implementation of the Plantation Labour Act, gross violation of the Provident Fund Act and an overall lack of agency in their work. Neglect of Plantation Labour Act, 1951 The wages of the tea garden workers in West Bengal are presently lower than the MGNREGA wage rate. “The facilities mentioned in the Act constitute our statutory right, but the government has till date never ensured that we get them.” Suraj Oraon, who also lives in the same tea garden, adds, “In Assam and West Bengal, tea garden workers do not get the benefit of the Minimum Wages Act. It is not even enough for a family to survive.” The daily wages of tea garden workers in the southern states are much more than in Bengal and Assam.
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