Free sugar to TE workers by March-end: Phani Bhusan Choudhury

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: State Food and Civil Supplies Minister Phani Bhusan Choudhury has said that each family of tea garden labourers will get two kg of sugar free of cost per month from March-end, if everything goes as planned.

According to the minister, the government had to take the decision of providing free-of-cost sugar to tea estate labourers so as to make them give up the habit of salt intake along with tea. “Taking salt is injurious for heath, especially for the women,” he said.

Choudhury further said that the tender has already been sought and opened for the supply of sugar by the Food and Civil Supplies department, and the work order will be issued by January-end or the first half of February. Rs 46 crore has been allocated in the annual budget for this scheme.

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