Workers of seven teagardens in the Sylhet city and its outskirts on Thursday observed a strike to push for a charter of demands that include forming a separate wage board for them and fixing Tk 300 as daily salary. About 7,000 workers of Malni Chhara, Hilua Chhara,
Tea garden worker
Tea garden workers lack sanitation facilities
Laxmi Rani Das, a physically challenged girl, has to walk almost a kilometre to find a secluded spot surrounded by bushes on a hilltop to respond to the call of nature. She usually takes her mother’s help in going out as she was born with only one leg. ‘We do not have any toilet. Most ... Read more