Workers launch stir against tea company

DIBRUGARH, May 17 – Tea garden workers today launched their proposed series of demonstrations in the plantations of the Assam Company by holding a protest in Thanai tea estate in the district. The workers will also hold mass hunger strike in front of the office of the Registrar of Assam Company on May 30 and observe total shutdown in all the tea estates of the Company on June 1.The tea garden workers under the patronage of the Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS) have been protesting against the prolonged failure of the tea company to provide basic amenities to the workers and implement statutory welfare measures in its plantations.

Similar protests have also been planned in Maijan, Greenwood, Borborooah and Hazelbank tea estates of Assam Company in the week, said Nabin Keot, secretary, ACMS, Khalihamari branch.

Assam Company, the oldest plantation company in the country has been accused of gross violation of the Plantation laws. The other tea estates owned by Assam Company in the State include Digulturung, Dinjan, Rungagora, Nudwa, Khoomtai, Doomur Dullung, Kandoli, Kotalgoorie, Mohokutie, Hajua and Oakland…

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