The tea plantations present a horizon flooded with a frozen sea of green, held back in time by tall shade trees piercing through them. There, we met a group of eight female workers.

Police in Assam say young girls from tea plantations are easy targets. They live in poverty, have very little education, and their parents are often saddled with debt.

“Our work was based solely on the plight of the Assam tea workers and the “Minimum Wages Act 1948”, however seeing how well received this report has been, we do hope that the impact will be ...

GUWAHATI. Workers of a tea plantation in Cachar district of southern Assam, fearing loss of livelihood after the clearing of a part of the estate for a commercial airport, have sought Chief ...

Tea plantation workers in India, Kenya and Sri Lanka can end their brutal exploitation only by breaking from the unions and fighting for a unified socialist and internationalist strategy.

Unions in Assam say many workers are paid below minimum wage and live in poverty on the plantations where they work CHENNAI, India, Sept 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of tea ...

More than 30 lakh tea bushes were uprooted for the project in Silchar, even as the civil aviation ministry said it has not received any such proposal.

Dibrugarh (Assam) [India], Apr 5 (ANI): Despite working for all days in a month, tea plantation workers in Assam's Dibrugarh allegedly are only paid for 26 days as their Sunday salaries are deducted.

Police in Assam say young girls from tea plantations are easy targets. They live in poverty, have very little education, and their parents are often saddled with debt.

Police in Assam say young girls from tea plantations are easy targets. They live in poverty, have very little education, and their parents are often saddled with debt.