Tea garden owners asked to pay Puja bonus upto 20% by Sep 20

[Tea Plantation Workers - Related News]

With barely a month left for Durga Puja, the Dibrugarh district administration has asked tea garden owners to pay puja bonus to plantation workers by September 20. The tea planters were also asked to announce the "quantum" of puja bonus before September 5 during a tripartite meeting on Wednesday evening (Aug 28) that was chaired by additional deputy commissioner Sanjay Dutta. Representatives of the Assam Branch Indian Tea Association (ABITA), Assam Tea Planters Association (ATPA), Tea Association of India (TAI), Bharatiya Chah Parishad (BCP) and North-Eastern Tea Association (NETA), Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha (ACMS) and Assam Tea Tribes Students' Association (ATTSA). The tea industry was urged to transfer the bonus amount directly to the bank accounts of the workers instead of the old method of cash payment. This year Durga puja begins on October 4.