A three-hour meeting of state labour minister Md Amin with tea garden owners and workers at the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority office today ended with another ultimatum to planters to reopen their closed estates.
“It has been resolved that five to six closed estates will reopen soon and we have granted 15 days’ time to the rest,” Amin said. “All closed gardens, no matter what the reason of their closure is, must unconditionally reopen.” He even said the trade unions must launch an agitation if the owners refuse to obey the order and added that the government will support them.
Incidentally, barring only two directors of gardens, all other owners stayed away from the meeting.
Source > The Telegraph
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