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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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Munnar-based KDHP runs into trouble as workers intensify stirMunnar-based company Kannan Devan Hills Plantation today said it was incurring "huge loss on a daily basis" due to the ongoing strike by it...
- West Bengal tea plantation employees Welfare Fund bill passedLabour Minister said that the bill will will provide interest subvention and matching grants to the employers of tea gardens as soft loan.
- Wages of tea workers in Assam revised to Rs 115 per dayThe tea industry of Assam valley was represented by five employers association and employees were represented by Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha.
- Sonia’s glare fails to silence impatient Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in Lok SabhaSonia showed her irritation when Chowdhury did not allow labour minister to respond to his queries on hunger deaths of West Bengal.
- 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."
- Darjeeling tea industry unfair to tea pluckers: anthropologistAs the first flush of prized Darjeeling tea nears harvest this spring, workers in fair-trade tea plantations there are still waiting for a ...
- 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...
- Tata Tea handed control of its tea plantations to workers to make profitFive years ago, Tata Tea handed control of its loss-making tea plantations to its workers. Today, they are flourishing and are being portra...
- 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...
- Tata group to hold about 35% in APPLThe shareholding pattern of Amalgamated Plantations (APPL), the new company formed by Tata Tea after restructuring its North Indian Plantat...
- Tea Board cracks down on plucking leaves with knivesTea Board has banned plucking of tea leaves using knives from March 10 with a view to improve the quality of tea produced in several estate...
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