The Gorkha Students, a conglomeration of all Nepali speaking people from India studying in the Jawaharlal Nehru University held a photo cum poster exhibition in the campus supporting the demand for higher wages of tea garden workers in North Bengal.
The exhibition aimed at generating awareness among the student community of University highlighting the severe deplorable soci-economic conditions of the tea garden workers of North Bengal which is greatly manifested in abject malnutrition and high scale distress migration.
It also called into question the apathy of both the Centre and state governments who only pay lip service to address the crisis. This crisis has been accentuated by the high number of lockout and closed tea gardens in the region which has left thousands of people without livelihood and on the verge of death due to starvation.
The Gorkha Students (Jawaharlal Nehru University) has supported the ongoing demand of the Coordination Committee of Tea Plantation Workers Union (CPTWU) who have demanded that the present wages be increased from Rs 90 to Rs. 322.
Also, the Gorkha Students have condemed the proposed token hike of Rs.21 offered by the Planters Association or of Rs 40 proposed by the State government which they intend to implement in a phase of three years. Factoring in the spiraling inflation that has gripped the nation such proposed wage hike is actually not a hike but a wage cut and is a mockery of the just demands.
In this endeavour the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) too has extended its steadfast solidarity to the struggle and strike of the tea-garden workers in North Bengal. They called the current wages unthinkable and inhuman and that such exploitation must be widely publicised to shake the conscience of the modern, civilized world.
Others student bodies like the Democratic Student’s Union (DSU) too condemned the connivance of the state in offering only a token wage-hike. It stated that it becomes the responsibility of all progressive democratic sections to reject the farcical arguments of the industry and the state.
The Jharkhand Tribal Students’ Association of JNU also stated that it is high time that the government looked into the sufferings of tea estate workers and provided them with better education and health facilities.
The SFI also supported the initiative taken by Gorkha Students and stated that they believe that the demands of the tea plantation workers are just demands that needs immediate attention. The SFI also expressed concern over the complete inaction of the Trinamool Congress led State Government which has sided with the owners on many occasions even in the past.
Last but not the least, the North East Student Forum (NESU) of JNU also came strongly in support of the toiling tea garden workers and urged the concerned authorities to immediately do the needful to ameliorate the present
[Via: Barun Adhikary for Gorkha Students JNU]
Source : DC
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It also called into question the apathy of both the Centre and state governments who only pay lip service to address the crisis. This crisis has been accentuated by the high number of lockout and closed tea gardens in the region which has left thousands of people without livelihood and on the verge of death due to starvation.
The Gorkha Students (Jawaharlal Nehru University) has supported the ongoing demand of the Coordination Committee of Tea Plantation Workers Union (CPTWU) who have demanded that the present wages be increased from Rs 90 to Rs. 322.
Also, the Gorkha Students have condemed the proposed token hike of Rs.21 offered by the Planters Association or of Rs 40 proposed by the State government which they intend to implement in a phase of three years. Factoring in the spiraling inflation that has gripped the nation such proposed wage hike is actually not a hike but a wage cut and is a mockery of the just demands.
In this endeavour the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) too has extended its steadfast solidarity to the struggle and strike of the tea-garden workers in North Bengal. They called the current wages unthinkable and inhuman and that such exploitation must be widely publicised to shake the conscience of the modern, civilized world.
Others student bodies like the Democratic Student’s Union (DSU) too condemned the connivance of the state in offering only a token wage-hike. It stated that it becomes the responsibility of all progressive democratic sections to reject the farcical arguments of the industry and the state.
The Jharkhand Tribal Students’ Association of JNU also stated that it is high time that the government looked into the sufferings of tea estate workers and provided them with better education and health facilities.
The SFI also supported the initiative taken by Gorkha Students and stated that they believe that the demands of the tea plantation workers are just demands that needs immediate attention. The SFI also expressed concern over the complete inaction of the Trinamool Congress led State Government which has sided with the owners on many occasions even in the past.
Last but not the least, the North East Student Forum (NESU) of JNU also came strongly in support of the toiling tea garden workers and urged the concerned authorities to immediately do the needful to ameliorate the present
[Via: Barun Adhikary for Gorkha Students JNU]
Source : DC
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