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Adani eyes Bengal ports, logistics opportunities as SMPK plans tourism pushKolkata's Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port is set to get a river cruise terminal and museum, boosting tourism. The port aims to increase cargo h...- More Indians need to become tea-totallersA Kolkata tea seller showcases a rare Darjeeling tea. This highlights the unique qualities of Darjeeling tea, often overlooked. Like Champa...
- Assam warns tea estate owners: Cooperate on land pattas for garden workers or lose Rs 150 crore incentivesAssam's government is urging tea estate owners to cooperate in granting land rights to workers, threatening to withdraw ₹150 crore in annua...
- Assam Assembly passes bill granting land rights to tea garden workersAssam's Legislative Assembly has passed a historic bill granting land rights to tea garden workers. This landmark legislation provides land...
- Assam offers dual caste certificates for tea garden workers, tribesThe Assam government has introduced dual caste certificates for present and former tea garden workers and tribes, allowing them to obtain c...
- Assam disburses incentives worth Rs 64 crore to 370 tea gardensChief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that an aggregate of Rs 64.05 crore were disbursed to the 370 tea gardens under the Assam Tea Indus...
- Assam faces Covaxin shortage, expects 1.5 lakh doses to arrive in few daysOwing to shortage Assam has recently suspended the first dose of Covaxin. Assam health minister Keshab Mahanta on Tuesday told media person...
- Asom Chah Mazdoor Sanga have called for tea estate bandh on January 8The bandh is called following the two day strike called by the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on January 8 and January 9 next year.
- Banks misses deadline for opening tea workers account in AssamAccording to SBI, Northeast circle the government has ordered banks to open accounts for all tea garden labourers so that wages can be tran...
- Section of tea garden owners apathetic towards labourers: Jyotipriyo MullickJyotipriyo Mullick today accused a section of them of not providing the labourers with subsidized food material available from the governme...
- 17 per cent tea garden workers in Assam have tuberculosisAbout 17% of tea labourers in Assam were suffering from tuberculosis following which the state govt is planning to initiate DOTS centres ac...
- Guwahati HC suspends government's directive of stopping allocation of bulk food grainsThe ministry added tea industry is required to provide food grains to permanent and temporary tea garden workers in lieu of wages.
- Assam government asks planters to provide wage hike tea garden workersThe Centre has recently asked the state government to do away age old system of allocating bulk food grains to the tea garden management.
- DIPP suspends registration under the schemes of NE Industrial and Investment Promotion PolicyAssam govt has decided to oppose the move while industry body smells conspiracy as they feel this is an attempt to dilute fiscal incentive.
- BJP talks of minimum wage, Congress talks Plantation Labour actAssam chief minister, Tarun Gogoi on Monday expressed dissatisfaction over non implementation of Plantation Labour Act.
- Congress focus on regaining lost ground in Assam; target tea tribe communityTea tribe community, which is over 40 lakh in Assam, has gradually shifted to BJP and in recent Lok Sabha polls BJP won 7 out of 14 seats.
- Government committed to revive sick tea gardens: Labour Minister Narendra Singh Tomar"We will do all possible to solve the problems of tea garden labourers in consultation with state governments."
- Narendra Modi promises quality life to tea garden labourersBJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today promised quality and dignified life to tea garden labourers of Assam.
- Tea gardens in Assam fear huge escalation in social costAssam has around 800 big tea estates and around one lakh small tea growers producing roughly 550 million kgs of tea annually.
- GJM demands pay hike of tea garden labourersorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung has demanded that the daily wage of tea garden labourers in the Darjeeling Hills be raised.
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