Daily wages hiked for Terai and Dooars Tea Workers

The wages of tea workers of tarai and Dooars are revised in a tripartite meeting held at Writers Building in the presence of Purenendu Bose [Labour], Gautam Dev [North Bengal Development Minister] and Partha Chatterjee [Industries]today.Previously the workers were geeting Rs.67 per day and after revised scale it will be Rs. 85 per day.These revised scale were applied to tea workers from Darjeeling sonce April this year.As per the aggrement the daily wages of the workers will be revised as follows:

2011:Rs 85/day

2012-2013-Rs 90/day

and Rs.95 per day will be made for the financial year ending in march 31,2014.