Pick and choose
Workers leave tea gardens for better NREGA wages
More than 5,000 tea garden workers in Tripura have switched jobs in the past six months. They have found a better option in the works under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega), 2005, leaving a tea industry in crisis in their trail.
Concerned about workers not reporting to tea estates, the Tea Association of India, a body of tea garden owners, wrote to the chief minister asking him to intervene. The association informed the chief minister that workers had job cards under nrega and the tea industry was in trouble.
What they did not write was the tea workers got meagre wages and had to go without ration for several days.
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