15/08/2024
DAILY WAGES OF Bangladesh TEA GARDEN WORKERS.💲
Bangladesh is an important tea-producing country. It is the twelveth largest tea producer in the world. Its tea industry dates back to British rule, when the East India Company initiated the tea trade in the hills of the Sylhet region. In addition to that, tea cultivation was introduced to Greater Chittagong in one thousand eight hundred forty. Today, the country has one hundred sixty-six commercial tea estates.More than three hundred thousand plantation workers are employed in Bangladeshi tea gardens. seventy-five parcent of workers are women. Many are descendants of tribal labourers brought from central India by the British. They are among the lowest paid in the country with a daily wage of one hundred twenty taka (about $1.25). On the first half of August Two Thousand and Twenty-Two, the tea workers started a nationwide movement demanding an increase in daily wages from one hundred twenty taka to three hundred taka. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ended the protest on twenty seventh August by directing the tea estate owners to raise the daily wage of tea workers to one hundred seventy taka. The labor ministry issued a gazette notification on August twelve, two thousend twenty three, setting the minimum wages for the labors to be one hundred sixty-eight BDT, one hundred sixty-nine BDT, and one hundred seventy BDT for the category C, B.
Tea workers are some of the most underpaid workers in Bangladesh. In addition, tea workers, seventy five parcent of whom are women, are predominantly ethnic minorities such as Saotal, Morong, and Unrao. Due to their low-income and marginalized ethnicities, they often suffer other poverty-related problems such as lack of access to health, nutrition, education, and shelter services.
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