SEARCH RESULT

Total Matching Records found : 65

Tea Garden Workers’ daily wage hiked -Umanand Jaiswal

-The Telegraph Assam govt raises rate for second time in 15 months Guwahati: The daily wage of Tea Garden Workers in Assam was increased by Rs 27 on Wednesday, the second hike in 15 months. The hike, which will take effect retrospectively from August 1, will see Tea Garden Workers in Brahmaputra Valley get Rs 232 a day, up from Rs 205 a day. Garden workers from Barak Valley will see their daily...

More »

Tea workers and staff get interim hike of 15% in pay -Avijit Sinha

-The Telegraph Wages and salaries raised with effect from January 1; planters asked to clear dues before July-end Siliguri: The state labour department issued a notification on Tuesday for an interim hike of 15 per cent in wages of workers and salaries of staff and sub-staff in tea gardens of north Bengal with retrospective effect from January 1. According to the notification issued by state labour commissioner Amarnath Mallick, the daily wage would...

More »

Amid tall poll promises, distress looms over north Bengal tea gardens -Shiv Sahay Singh

-The Hindu With no ownership of land or houses and denial of minimum wage, lakhs of workers continue to live in a vicious cycle of bondage plucking Over the past few elections, Benam Oraon, a tea garden worker at Nagrakata Tea Estate in West Bengal, attended several election meetings and kept a note of the promises which political parties made. This election, however, he is contesting the polls as a candidate from...

More »

Darjeeling's tea-garden workers to get 20% bonus

-The Hindu The decision was taken during a tripartite meeting at Kolkata’s New Secretariat Building where representatives of the workers’ union and planters’ association met Labour Minister Moloy Ghatak. Kolkata: The West Bengal government and the Tea Planters’ Association of Darjeeling hills on Friday agreed to the demand of Tea Garden Workers across 87 gardens in the Darjeeling hills for a 20% bonus. The decision was taken during a tripartite meeting at...

More »

For India Inc's sob story, Sitharaman has a sop story. But will it help? -Aunindyo Chakravarty

-TheWire.in Instead of giving freebies to the affluent, Sitharaman should have announced additional government spending in MNREGA and plans for filling vacancies in government jobs. After holding out for seven weeks, following her maiden budget, Nirmala Sitharaman finally blinked. For about a month now, pink papers and business-friendly pundits had been crying foul about India Inc’s shrinking sales. But, since you can’t sell a sob story about the rich, it was spun to...

More »

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close