The inability to provide her family proper meals for the past two days and the shock of not receiving her wages yesterday has led a woman worker of the Dalsinghpara tea garden to attempt suicide.
Joyma Teli, 23, a mother of two young children, set herself on fire this morning and had to be admitted to the subdivisional hospital here with severe burn injuries. Joyma has a son, Ajoy, aged six and a daughter, Rinku, aged 18 months.
“We had all been waiting for our wages last evening and when the management did not pay us, Joyma went home shattered since it was the second day that she had not been able to cook a meal for her children. She poured kerosene on herself had set her clothes on fire,” said a neighbour, Kaushali Teli.
Lachchu Teli, the woman’s father-in-law, said the workers have been going through very tough times and Joyma and his son, Jitbahan, were both without any money.
“My son, who is a labourer in Bhutan, also has not received any payment recently,” he said.
Joyma had to be referred to the subdivisional hospital because there is no doctor in the garden.
Source > The Telegraph
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