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Assam tea workers price para khali 7 per cent pai ase : Report

October 12, 2019

GUWAHATI | Oct 11, 2019:India laga  Assam tea  nimete consumers khan para poisa diya toh  supermarket khan laga tea brands khan  para two thirds nishena poisa toh loi.Etu te estates laga workers khan nimete 7 percent hi bachikena thakeh.

Oxfam para ola diya Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),para shuru kura  nutun research  para  supermarkets ,tea brands aro  sate authorities khan  ke action lobole koishe  Assam’s tea workers khan dukh paa toh khotom kuribole nimete .

“Supermarkets khan aro  brands khan para  etu end consumer price uthai dishe tea  makes  poverty  aro Assam laga dukha bi ase,Reoport te koishe  50 tea estates laga 510 workers khan ke interview loikena tai khan dikdaar  khan janaishe.

Hoilebi daam khan uthikena aro mousam bodli huwa  nimete economic crisis hoi ase entire Indian tea industry te.

Release te koishe ki”Etu research te aro paishe ki  13 ghonta kaam kurikena bi workers khan  Rs 137 to Rs 167 majhotte kaamai .Aro paishe ki tea brands aro supermarkets khan   Assam tea India te consumers khan para pay kura laga two thirds nishena loi .Aro  workers  tea estates khan nimete  7 percent hi rakhikena ase.”

India te branded Assam tea sold laga 200 gms  toh  Rs 68 te bikhai.Etu te Rs 5 te workers khan nimete  ase aro tea brands aro  supermarkets khan   Rs 40 nishena kaamai ase.

Report-‘Addressing The Human Cost of Assam Tea’- te koise ki etu proposed code Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Bill etu para Assam tea industry viable bonabole paribo.

Etu para  working aro living condition tea plantation workers aro  tai khan laga  families nimete thik ase .

Oxfam India CEO Amitabh Behar koishe “Ami khan khushi pai ase government  khan kosish kura toh  tea plantation workers khan laga thankaa uthabole kosish kura toh aro etia ahibole thaka Occupational Health and Safety bill nimete.Etu duita potential ase  Assam laga tea workers khan dikdaar paa toh sabole nimete .”

Tai koishe  tea brands khan bishi bara sawal uthaishe  workers khan laga  fair wages dibole laga financial viability te  hoilebi  research te dikhaishe ki  khali two percent additional value etu sector laga millions nishena workers khan ke dishe.”