Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
Labourers in tea plantations are heading towards a major crisis as payments are likely to get stuck or delayed due to the vacuum in liquidity generated after demonetisation which is yet to be filled. In Assam, which produces more than 54 per cent of the annual tea produce, the arrangement was made to route the payment wages payment for workers through the district magistrate (DM), now the state government went ahead with the move to open bank accounts for each of the plantation workers, where their weekly or fortnightly wages can be credited directly to the plantation owners. However, so far has been slow.
