Tripura Govt allocates Rs. 85 Cr. to ensure social security for tea garden workers
Mar 09, 2022Agartala March 09: The BJP led coalition government has allocated Rs. 85 crores to ensure social security to more than 7000 tea garden workers in the state under the ‘Mukhyamantri Cha Sramik Kalyan Prakalpo’. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday at the civil secretariat, the state ICA Minister Sushanta Chowdhury on Wednesday said that 75 per cent among 7,000 tea garden workers are women while tea is being produced through 54 tea estates and 21 tea processing factories across the state.
The tea production is mainly distributed in North, Sepahijala, Unakoti and West Tripura districts”. “The government decided to provide wages of Rs 176 per day to every worker while it was Rs 105 and at present, it is Rs 130 per person,” Chowdhury told reporters. Elaborating the features of the scheme, the ICA Minister said that the ‘Mukhyamantri Cha Sramik Kalyan Prakalpo’ are- to provide land or home to farmers for constructing house, to allot land of defunct tea garden in lease basis through Cooperative, to provide drinking water, electricity, shelter, education
And healthcare amenities to each and every family, priority group ration card to be given, promote their children to send them in pre-primary to Higher Secondary schools, social pension to all eligible families, social allowance, Maternal and Child Health Care assistance to be given, ensure health insurance as per their ability, to provide supportive appliances for handicapped persons, to monitor and coordinating with the managers for providing eco-friendly environment, to be brought under PMAY.
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