The underlying factors of deforestation must come under objective scrutiny.
Equal opportunities are no longer enough to bring the tea workers in Bangladesh out of their current conditions.
The public, in general, also uses the same word but Kawara, in Bangla, is used in a derogatory way implying the community that lives with pigs.
Rubber, be it in the CHT, Madhupur or in the tea gardens, may bring some economic benefits to the state and private entrepreneurs, but in general it has not been beneficial to the people who once used these lands.
It is a shame that the wage board completely failed in framing and presenting acceptable recommendations on the tea workers’ wage structure.
Though eucalyptus was eradicated from the public forest land, social forestry continues at a very high cost to natural ecosystems.
Women in the tea gardens suffer from a host of reproductive and health issues, which remain unaddressed.
The owners’ fickleness about signing of the agreement has come as a big shock to tea garden workers.
The underlying factors of deforestation must come under objective scrutiny.
Equal opportunities are no longer enough to bring the tea workers in Bangladesh out of their current conditions.
The public, in general, also uses the same word but Kawara, in Bangla, is used in a derogatory way implying the community that lives with pigs.
Rubber, be it in the CHT, Madhupur or in the tea gardens, may bring some economic benefits to the state and private entrepreneurs, but in general it has not been beneficial to the people who once used these lands.
It is a shame that the wage board completely failed in framing and presenting acceptable recommendations on the tea workers’ wage structure.
Though eucalyptus was eradicated from the public forest land, social forestry continues at a very high cost to natural ecosystems.
Women in the tea gardens suffer from a host of reproductive and health issues, which remain unaddressed.
The owners’ fickleness about signing of the agreement has come as a big shock to tea garden workers.
The government has a huge task ahead in terms of making its social security programmes effective.
Tea workers may not have had their demands fulfilled, but their united voice brings in a new era of workers' rights.
