Tag: tea garden workers
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The happiness that comes with an yearly bonus
This video is a story of success, a story of a small win against a giant corporation. A story of persistence and a never-say-die attitude. This year, the workers of 3 gardens in the Alipurduar area of Kumargram Block, received a slightly increased yearly bonus, an increase of 3%, from...
Community Survey
Low Wages, Lockdown Lead West Bengal Tea Garden Workers to Protest
Tea garden workers, who migrated to cities in search of better opportunities, have returned to their villages in tea gardens of North Bengal and have very little work.
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.
Impact Story
Tea Gardens of North Bengal: A Hotbed of Human Trafficking
Tea gardens that once brewed the world-famous Darjeeling tea have now become a hotbed for trafficking, owing to the undermining of labour rights and rising deprivation.
A March across the Tea gardens for Justice
About 400 tea gardens workers from of Dooars and Terai regions of West Bengal joined a 10-day rally organised by the Progressive Tea Workers Union (PTWU) on January 5, earlier this year. The 390-km rally started in the village of Kumargram Sankosh and ended in the city of Siliguri of...
No morsel of food for tea-garden workers in Bengal
As we sip our morning tea in comforts of our home, tea workers in this tea estate of North Bengal are struggling to survive, eating dried leaves as their meal because their only source of income, the tea estates, owned by Duncans Industries Ltd have shut down since last year...