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Once known for drought & rejecting girl child, this village is now green haven that celebrates every girl born. All because one father turned his daughter's death into revolutionA father's grief over the loss of his daughter sparked a remarkable movement in a village in Rajasthan. Today, Piplantri celebrates the bir...- Employees terminated for business reasons are entitled to compensation and re-skilling funds under New Labour CodeNew central government rules under the Labour Code offer significant benefits to employees facing job loss due to business reasons. These w...
- In the 1930s, workers clearing plantation land in Costa Rica accidentally revealed mysterious stone spheres from a buried pre-Columbian worldGiant stone spheres were found in southern Costa Rica during the 1930s and 1940s. These spheres were part of a larger settlement network in...
- Need to create jobs in rural areas to reduce migration of youth, farmers : Nitin GadkariUnion Minister Nitin Gadkari stressed the need for rural employment to stop migration to cities. He highlighted the plight of farmers and w...
- VP Radhakrishnan to visit Sri Lanka's Nuwara Eliya, meet Indian housing project beneficiariesIndian Vice President C P Radhakrishnan concluded his Sri Lanka visit. He met beneficiaries of the Indian Housing Project in Nuwara Eliya. ...
- Assam govt issues notification hiking wages of tea garden workersWith this hike, the tea workers in Brahmaputra Valley will receive Rs 232, while tea plantation workers in Barak Valley will get Rs 210. Ch...
- 150,000 Bangladeshi tea workers strike against dollar-a-day wagesThe minimum wage for a tea plantation worker in the country is 120 taka a day -- about $1.25 at official rates, but only just over a dollar...
- Only 39 per cent of workers can be considered as permanent workers in tea plantation sector in Assam: Oxfam IndiaOxfam India is working in seven districts of Assam—Biswanath, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Lakhimpur, Tezpur, Golaghat and Sivasagar.
- Assam rolls back daily wage hike for tea plantation workersThe minimum wage before the Rs 50 interim hike was Rs 167 a day. On Friday, BJP MP Pallab Lochan Das told the media that the workers would ...
- HUL partners with UNICEF to deliver essential products to plantation workersThe initiative focuses on enhancing awareness related to COVID-19, amongst the tea-plantation workers and local communities and help them t...
- 4.8 lakh skilled workers certified under PMKVYThe programme has covered 458 districts across India covering skills ranging from carpet weavers in Rajasthan, tea plantation workers in We...
- Trade Unions, women workers intensify agitationStriking plantation workers today intensified their agitation by blocking roads at Munnar in Idukki district and various other places to pu...
- Rs 500 daily wage for Kerala tea workers not feasible: UpasiUpasi has made it clear that the demand for a daily basic wage of Rs 500 by the tea plantation workers of Kerala is not feasible given pres...
- NCW to initiate research on plight of women plantation workersIn the backdrop of agitation by women plantation workers in Kerala, the National Commission for Women today said it will initiate research ...
- United Planters’ Association of Southern India denounces strike tactics of tea workers in KeralaUpasi president Vijayan Rajes said the wages added with statutory and other benefits work out to Rs 410.72 per day.
- World Bank probes Tata tea project over worker abuse in IndiaProductivity targets are so difficult to meet, it said, that tea pickers engage other family members, including children, to receive a sing...
- Hind Mazdoor Sabha to pull up pending planation labour issuesHind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), one of the largest trade-union federations in India, is keen on pulling back many old issues pertaining to planta...
- Govt approves amendment to Indian Plantation Labour ActGovernment today approved amendments in the Indian Plantation Labour Act, 1951 to provide a mechanism for ensuring their safety and welfare.
- Committee recommends imposition of additional excise duty on teaThe committee appointed by the Union government to study the social cost of tea gardens suggested imposition of an additional excise duty o...
- Plantation workers to get PFThe plantation workers who were not included in the PF benefit will be short-listed, said union minister of state for commerce.
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