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Calcutta High Court Directs Govt To Finalise Minimum Wage Of Tea Plantation Workers Within 6 Weeks, Calls It A Statutory & Legal Right
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Calcutta High Court Directs Govt To Finalise Minimum Wage Of Tea Plantation Workers Within 6 Weeks, Calls It A Statutory & Legal Right

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court's circuit bench at Jalpaiguri has directed the West Bengal government to finalise the minimum wage of tea plantation workers within 6 weeks, under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.This comes after a coordinate bench had upheld the interim hike in wages for the workers and directed the state to finalise a minimum wage within 6 months. The …

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Kerala’s plantation workers left behind with mere 2 paise rise in dearness allowance over 33 years, says RTI reply
1 year, 3 months ago

Kerala’s plantation workers left behind with mere 2 paise rise in dearness allowance over 33 years, says RTI reply

The Hindu  

In the past 33 years, there has only been an increase of 2 paise in the Dearness Allowance for as many as 3.5 lakh permanent plantation workers in Kerala, shows the reply to a Right to Information query by Munnar resident and former plantation worker Karim Ibrahim. The documents secured from the State Statistics department showed that the basic point …

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Assam small tea growers resent hike in workers’ wages
2 years, 4 months ago

Assam small tea growers resent hike in workers’ wages

The Hindu  

Small tea growers in Assam have resented the State government’s “unilateral” decision to increase the daily wage of plantation workers across gardens big and small to ₹232. The All Assam Small Tea Growers’ Association said equating them with large gardens was an injustice on the part of the government. Government not extending subsidies: team growers’ body Assam has about 1.22 …

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This election season, there’s a storm brewing in Assam’s tea gardens
3 years, 9 months ago

This election season, there’s a storm brewing in Assam’s tea gardens

Live Mint  

Six years ago, when Thomas Kerketta visited Garih Jharia Maria, his ancestral village in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district, everyone treated him as an outsider. At his campaign rally in Dhekiajuli in the first week of February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of his government’s goodwill measures for tea-garden workers, even cautioning them against an “international conspiracy” to malign the Indian tea …

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Assam Assembly polls | Pay revised wages to workers, Himanta tells tea companies
3 years, 9 months ago

Assam Assembly polls | Pay revised wages to workers, Himanta tells tea companies

The Hindu  

Assam Finance Minister and BJP’s chief poll strategist Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday warned tea estate owners to pay daily wages to their workers at the revised rate or face the music. We revised it to ₹217 but a few tea garden owners went to the High Court against the revision in connivance with the Congress,” he told a crowd …

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SC Seeks Govt.'s Response On Challenge To Non-Payment Of Wages To Tea Garden Workers During COVID Lockdown
4 years, 8 months ago

SC Seeks Govt.'s Response On Challenge To Non-Payment Of Wages To Tea Garden Workers During COVID Lockdown

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the State Government of Assam to respond to a plea seeking payment of wages and ration supplies to Tea Plantation workers within 10 days.A bench comprising Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices Indu Malhotra & Hrishikesh Roy observed that even though the bench is not usually inclined to interfere, it would do so in this …

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Assam’s tea country where lethal liquor takes lives
5 years, 10 months ago

Assam’s tea country where lethal liquor takes lives

The Hindu  

Spurious ‘sulai,’ or country spirit, has often taken lives in Assam. But the cheap liquor was seldom a large-scale killer until more than a week ago when it felled 157 people in and around two tea estates in eastern Assam’s Golaghat and Jorhat districts. The tragedy happened within a certain radius of the two estates not far from each other, …

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Assam hooch tragedy: At least 84 killed, 200 hospitalised; 12 arrested for making spurious liquor
5 years, 10 months ago

Assam hooch tragedy: At least 84 killed, 200 hospitalised; 12 arrested for making spurious liquor

Firstpost  

A number of women are among the casualties in the Assam hooch tragedy. Guwahati: At least 84 people have died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor in Assam, and around 200 others have been hospitalised, a state government minister said on Saturday. Dilip Rajbnonshi, a doctor at the government hospital in Golaghat, located some 40 kilometres southwest of Jorhat said the …

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