All Adivasi Students Association of Assam stages protest in Athabari Tea Estate

DEMOW: Under the patronage of All Adivasi Students Association of Assam (AASAA), Athabari Primary Committee, a two-hour demonstration was staged in Athabari Tea Estate near Demow on Tuesday to demand solution to various problems of labourers in the tea estate.

Later, the activists of AASAA, Athabari Primary Committee submitted a memorandum to the Manager of Athabari Tea Estate on Tuesday. In the memorandum, AASAA, Athabari Primary Committee demanded that the daily wage of tea labourers should be increased to Rs.351, 20 per cent bonus should be provided to tea labourers, the money of the PF gratuity should be given, unemployment youths should be given work according to their educational qualification, the eligible labourers should be given permanent jobs, the houses of the labourers in the tea estate should be repaired and drains should be clean, and the money of the ICI should be released.

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