Tea garden manager gheraoed
PTI, SNS, Jalpaiguri, | 26 November, 2015: Labourers of Nageshwari tea garden in Jalpaiguri district on Thursday gheraoed the manager demanding basic provisions like wages, ration, water and electricity supply.
About 30-40 labourers gheraoed the manager of the tea garden, located in Mal block.
Joint Forum of Labour Unions of the tea garden said the garden belonged to the Duncan group.
A spokesman of the Joint Forum, Zia ul Alam of CITU, said a stalemate was continuing in the garden and the labourers had no money to buy food or medicine.
UTUC leader Nirmal Das said with a deadlock prevailing in the garden, labourers had to register their protest by this action.
A labourer of the same tea garden died on Monday and family members had alleged that he had died of malnutrition and lack of treatment.
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