Life of the Workers in an Abandoned Tea garden in North Bengal
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2020-03-31
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University of North Bengal
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A tea plantation, apart from being an economic unit, is a social
institution, which, to a great extent, controls the lives of their resident work
force. The tea industry of North Bengal provides employment to more than three
lakh workers. These workers are dependent upon the plantation management
for food, water, shelter, education, health, sanitation and more. However, it is
taken to be caught in crisis since the early 2000s. The closure and abandonment
of several tea plantations of North Bengal has thrown the labourers into a
situation of dire uncertainty. They lose their jobs, and there comes a shift in the
nature of their work, from permanent labourer in the tea estate to casual labourer
elsewhere. Besides losing economic security, they are losing whatever minimum
social security they had prior to the closure or abandonment of the estate. The
paper aims to understand the reason(s) behind the closure of one particular tea
estate from the Terai, namely, Panighatta Tea Estate. The estate has been
abandoned since 2015. The paper further tries to analyse the impact of the
abandonment and closure upon its concerned labourers.
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2348-6538