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Assam, Feb 20: <\/strong>The Assam cabinet on Saturday decided to hike the\u00a0daily wage of tea garden workers by \u20b950 from \u20b9167 to \u20b9217 ahead of the assembly polls in the state due in April-May.<\/p>\n

Parliamentary affairs minister Chandra Mohan Patowary informed after the meeting that tea garden workers would also get \u20b9101 daily for rations– effectively taking their daily earnings to \u20b9318.<\/p>\n

Organizations of tea garden workers have been demanding an increase in their daily wages to \u20b9351 for a long time. In 2018, the state government had increased the wages of tea garden workers by \u20b930 taking it to \u20b9167.<\/p>\n

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The cabinet also formed a one-member committee comprising principal secretary JB Ekka to look into ways in which a similar hike can be done in small tea gardens of the state.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s cabinet decision comes six days after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announced at a poll rally in Assam that if the\u00a0party comes to power in the state, it would hike the wages from \u20b9167 to \u20b9365 daily.<\/p>\n

Nearly 1.1 million workers have employed in around 800 tea gardens in the state especially in upper Assam. These workers and their families have a significant role in the outcome of nearly 40 of the total 126 seats in the state assembly.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s wage hike is just one of the many schemes the BJP-led government has announced for this section of voters since coming to power for the first time in the state in 2016.<\/p>\n

They include the promise of scheduled tribe status to the tea-tribe community<\/a><\/span><\/span> and cash transfers of \u20b92500\/ \u20b93000 to bank accounts of nearly 8 lakh tea garden workers at a cost of \u20b9220 crores to the state exchequer.<\/p>\n

Other benefits include free rice, cash benefits to pregnant women, reservation of seats in educational institutions, setting up schools in tea gardens as well as providing mobile phones, bicycles, money to meritorious students, and funds to young men to set up small businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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