Tag: Alipurduar
Alipurduar Sunday Market Has People Crowding From 20 Nearby Villages | COVID-19
Social distancing goes for a toss in this weekend market in Alipurduar, West Bengal.
‘British Time Had Better Medical Facilities For Tea Garden Workers Than Now’
Why hasn't the Plantation Act been implemented that cares for the welfare of tea garden workers?
Community Survey
After Seven Decades of Independence West Bengal Tea Garden Workers Yet to be Free From...
While India celebrated its 74th Independence Day, workers at Madhu Tea Garden and several other tea estates in Alipurduar, Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts marked the day with launching their campaign for basic rights. Community Correspondent Harihar brings us this news report from the thick of the action. He grew...
A Community’s Decade Long Struggle for Water in West Bengal
North Bengal suffers from an acute water shortage and from water contamination but both the government and the tea industry have been slow to act.