The CPI-ML has called a bandh in North Bengal tomorrow. The CPI-ML (Liberation) has supported the bandh, which has been convened to protest against the alleged apathy of the state government to bring errant tea plantation owners to heel and ensure the reopening of the abandoned or closed tea estates of the region.
“The state government has adopted a wait and watch policy while tea workers languish from hunger and uncertainty.
Caring two hoots about the workers’ conditions a section of plantation owners are locking out or abandoning the plantations at will and the state government stands a mute spectator. We condemn such inaction,” CPI-ML general secretary Mr Kanu Sanyal said.
Demanding “immediate arrest,” of the plantation management and owners who have closed down the plantations Mr Sanyal further alleged: “Not just the matter of closed plantations. Plantation owners are faltering in ration, wage payments and depriving workers of their Provident Fund, gratuity and other dues. If the state government does not wake up to the situation and take effective steps, they might have a mass upsurge to contend with.”
Incidentally, 18 tea plantations are closed in the Darjeeling hills, Terai and Dooars. Several round of meetings by the labour department including labour minister Mr Mohammad Amin has had no result on the issue.
Source > The Statesman
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