Doomdooma: Hundreds of tea garden workers, including many women, staged a two-hour protest outside the factory gate of Baghjan Tea Estate in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Wednesday, demanding residential land rights, higher daily wages and action on other long-pending issues affecting the tea tribes community.
The protest was organised by the Baghjan–Dighaltarang sub-branch committee of the Assam Tea Tribes Students’ Association (ATTSA), along with its affiliated primary units and tea garden workers.
The demonstrators urged the government to expedite the process of granting periodic land pattas for residential plots where tea workers and their families have lived for generations.
Addressing the gathering, Irot Tanti, president of the ATTSA Doomdooma regional committee, said the protest was intended to draw attention to the community’s longstanding demands and pressing concerns. He called for concrete measures to secure workers’ land rights and improve their economic and living conditions.
The protesters also demanded higher wages and raised other unresolved issues affecting the livelihood and welfare of tea garden workers.
Among those present were Roni Majhi, assistant secretary of the ATTSA Doomdooma regional committee; Hem Chandra Bag, sports secretary of the Tinsukia district committee; Jiten Mahato, president of the Baghjan–Dighaltarang sub-branch committee; and Rishav Tanti, secretary of the same committee. Other ATTSA activists and tea garden workers also joined the demonstration.